I'm one of those unsung heroes. I worked for the company that built the Lunar Modules. I'm very glad to have been in almost the right place at the right time.
@@Tiglath-Pileser3 Grumman built a lot of other interesting flying things. If you've ever been to the Intrepid Air Sea & Space museum in NYC, an awful lot of the planes are Grumman's.
@@purplealice Oh yeah, my neighbor had walls covered with pictures of different planes he had worked on. As a boy who dreamed of flying, I would visit all of the time.
A man is walking on the moon with his eyes turned up toward space And the bright blue world that watches him reflected on his face The whole world sees that hero there and the module crew also But few can see the guiding team that guards him from below Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none And together what we will can be accomplished still, Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none Here's a health to the man who walked the moon, and the module crew above, And the team that watches from the sky with worry, joy, and love To all who blazed the sky-trail come raise your glasses 'round; And a health to the unknown heroes, too, who never left the ground Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none And together what we will can be accomplished still, Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none Here's a health to the ship's designers, and the welders of her seams, And all who man the radar-scan to watch our dawning dreams For all the unknown heroes, sing out to every shore: "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!" Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none And together what we will can be accomplished still, Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
Thanks for adding the lyrics, but there's one thing you probably couldn't know (I had the cassette & lyrics page once upon a million years ago), what you have here as 'singly none' is meant to be sine qua non. See below: sine qua non sĭn″ĭ kwä nŏn′, nōn′, sī″nĭ, kwā► n. An essential element or condition. n. Something absolutely necessary or indispensable; an indispensable condition: as, he made the presence of a witness a sine qua non; used attributively, indispensable; necessary. n. An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient. My take on it is that there may be many components to a larger thing that seem inconsequential alone, but together are indispensable in achieving the greater goal. When we all work together, we can do amazing things that couldn't have been accomplished by any of us alone.💜
While my mother never worked a manned spaceflight, she has worked many other spacecraft launches. I hope that makes her an Unknown hero? I think it should!
maybe no quite as stunning as the lunar landing, but i am here to mark the successful landing of the Mars Perseverance rover "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
Some early pilots were their own "ground crews" plane manufacturers, and constructors as well. I place those guys shoulder to shoulder with Astronauts, I sure know I would not take off in a plane from before WWI.
I was prasied by both teatcher, and headmaster for being best of my class at Finals, I remembered this, and said, that It was a team efort, and that lot of people in class, and outside helped me to climb that ladder.
Oh magnets... the future of human technology. (Warfare: Magnetic armour and magnetically propelled bullets, potentially plasma weaponry as well. Transportation: Maglevs, Inter-planetary and Inter-stellar flight. Power: magnetically influenced kinetic generators and wind turbines. Industry: Magnetic mining, and construction. So much more as well.) To bad the force required to get a magnetically propelled aircraft off the ground would actually crush the craft, so for orbital stuff we will still need to rely on ballistics for the time being until we find or make something harder to make such crafts out of... we will also need to figure out how to actually build stuff in space. (in-orbit construction)
oh cool thing about one magnetic metal by the way, if you put iron in a vacuum and take another piece of iron and stick it to it they weld themselves together no weldor needed (and yes I spelled that right weldor is the machine that does the work a welder is the person who preforms the task)
@@Tula-cs1ef Yep. Fish was (is? She's gone a bit odd tbh) a hardcore Wobbly, she was in their house band for a long time. Firestorm is basically an ancom power fantasy album
@Leslie Fish Hi Leslie, I agonised over this reply for a long time (I'm assuming you're THE Leslie Fish). Perhaps Communism may have been the wrong term to use, due to the connotations of Maoism and Stalinism. When I said "communism" these were not the ideas that I hoped to invoke but those of the Wobblies and the International Workers. When I think communism, I think more of Marx's criticisms of our extant systems. Of course we don't need Marx to see that workers are being abused. I'm a (workers) unionist myself and I want to express my agreement with the workers and not geopolitical entities.
@Leslie Fish Ma'am nearly every wobbly I've ever met was a hardcore communist what are you talking about? Why else is the union card red? Like, the labor movement of the early 20th century is almost synonymous with leftism in the states of that time. Mind you, perhaps this is a phrasing difference, but tankies aren't taking communism from me.
![Minus Ten and Counting 04 - Toast for Unknown Heroes [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OIUqnVVUcrQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I'm one of those unsung heroes. I worked for the company that built the Lunar Modules. I'm very glad to have been in almost the right place at the right time.
Well good sir, I’ll guess I have to take your word for it. But if you are who you say you are, then a congratulations unlike any seen before is due.
Don't suppose you were there during Apollo 13?
Grumman? My neighbor worked for them, had some great stories about the space race days.
@@Tiglath-Pileser3 Grumman built a lot of other interesting flying things. If you've ever been to the Intrepid Air Sea & Space museum in NYC, an awful lot of the planes are Grumman's.
@@purplealice Oh yeah, my neighbor had walls covered with pictures of different planes he had worked on. As a boy who dreamed of flying, I would visit all of the time.
@greengrendel "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before".
And THAT line always makes me tear up....
Do you I
"What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
Bravo
My favourite line too!
A man is walking on the moon with his eyes turned up toward space
And the bright blue world that watches him reflected on his face
The whole world sees that hero there and the module crew also
But few can see the guiding team that guards him from below
Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none
And together what we will can be accomplished still,
Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
Here's a health to the man who walked the moon, and the module crew above,
And the team that watches from the sky with worry, joy, and love
To all who blazed the sky-trail come raise your glasses 'round;
And a health to the unknown heroes, too, who never left the ground
Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none
And together what we will can be accomplished still,
Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
Here's a health to the ship's designers, and the welders of her seams,
And all who man the radar-scan to watch our dawning dreams
For all the unknown heroes, sing out to every shore:
"What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none
And together what we will can be accomplished still,
Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
Thanks for adding the lyrics, but there's one thing you probably couldn't know (I had the cassette & lyrics page once upon a million years ago), what you have here as 'singly none' is meant to be sine qua non. See below:
sine qua non sĭn″ĭ kwä nŏn′, nōn′, sī″nĭ, kwā►
n. An essential element or condition.
n. Something absolutely necessary or indispensable; an indispensable condition: as, he made the presence of a witness a sine qua non; used attributively, indispensable; necessary.
n. An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient.
My take on it is that there may be many components to a larger thing that seem inconsequential alone, but together are indispensable in achieving the greater goal. When we all work together, we can do amazing things that couldn't have been accomplished by any of us alone.💜
@@RandomNexus While I like your message, the image of the video says singly
its a remaster of step by step?
While my mother never worked a manned spaceflight, she has worked many other spacecraft launches. I hope that makes her an Unknown hero? I think it should!
Well, April 2020 fels as good a time as any to return to this song...
*sigh*
Now, let's get to building that arch, shall we?
Well, April 2021 feels as good a time as any to return to this song...
Let’s build that arch, eh?
@@andrewmiffitt7973 bloody hell, I hate the fact that a year has passed and all that's happened is race war and president war
US20060145019A1 we have some
@@andrewmiffitt7973 December 2021 and a couple of awful companies folded to strikes. That Arch is certainly being built.
@@rairarku2964
Two years now. It will come in time.
maybe no quite as stunning as the lunar landing, but i am here to mark the successful landing of the Mars Perseverance rover
"What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
without the ground crew those hero's wouldn't exist at all that goes for those dashing pilots and brave spacemen
Some early pilots were their own "ground crews" plane manufacturers, and constructors as well. I place those guys shoulder to shoulder with Astronauts, I sure know I would not take off in a plane from before WWI.
@@michalsoukup1021 again they needed a ground crew even if that ground crew was themselves
I was prasied by both teatcher, and headmaster for being best of my class at Finals, I remembered this, and said, that It was a team efort, and that lot of people in class, and outside helped me to climb that ladder.
And together, what we will
Can be accomplished still....
"The Bonnie Ship the Diamond"--melody of the verse.
i thought it sounded familiar
Perfect music for the Falcon heavy launch
A nice song which made me think of the movie "hidden figures".
The Rhythm and the melody always remind me of The Body Ship the Diamond
#toastforunknownheroes - this is terrific!
Seriously considering using this for a SpaceX Starship montage. :)
The steps before, and the steps after. The adventure isn't done yet--the cleanup is ongoing.
Wasn't expecting an old wobbly song to be filked
This sounds really great sung at a world Con with a bunch of us doing harmony too. :)
These ought to be played on public airways. Maybe it'd get national pride going again. A renewed manned space program would help the economy, as well.
not with rockets, imo, but magnets.
Oh magnets... the future of human technology. (Warfare: Magnetic armour and magnetically propelled bullets, potentially plasma weaponry as well. Transportation: Maglevs, Inter-planetary and Inter-stellar flight. Power: magnetically influenced kinetic generators and wind turbines. Industry: Magnetic mining, and construction. So much more as well.) To bad the force required to get a magnetically propelled aircraft off the ground would actually crush the craft, so for orbital stuff we will still need to rely on ballistics for the time being until we find or make something harder to make such crafts out of... we will also need to figure out how to actually build stuff in space. (in-orbit construction)
+Metall Support your local mag-ball team!
oh cool thing about one magnetic metal by the way, if you put iron in a vacuum and take another piece of iron and stick it to it they weld themselves together no weldor needed (and yes I spelled that right weldor is the machine that does the work a welder is the person who preforms the task)
@@darrvenomfier790 only if they do not have an oxide layer. they need to be bare metal for it to work.
File under things that make me cry in public.
So true
I was jamming to this with Perseverance landed on mars
Freedom for those in the East, step by step they will win that march.
What, you are not for the privatization? Thought that was the GOP standard... privatize everything, Gov should pay for nothing....
I prefer to just steal the money myself. Don't wait for the government to do it for you.
@Leslie Fish based
Hurrah for Communism. (This song is basically an old Union song)
Wait for real?
@@Tula-cs1ef Yeah It's called step by step. It's almost exactly the chorus for this song. Here's a link ruclips.net/video/Fcw-Dgjid20/видео.html
@@Tula-cs1ef Yep. Fish was (is? She's gone a bit odd tbh) a hardcore Wobbly, she was in their house band for a long time. Firestorm is basically an ancom power fantasy album
@Leslie Fish Hi Leslie, I agonised over this reply for a long time (I'm assuming you're THE Leslie Fish). Perhaps Communism may have been the wrong term to use, due to the connotations of Maoism and Stalinism. When I said "communism" these were not the ideas that I hoped to invoke but those of the Wobblies and the International Workers. When I think communism, I think more of Marx's criticisms of our extant systems. Of course we don't need Marx to see that workers are being abused. I'm a (workers) unionist myself and I want to express my agreement with the workers and not geopolitical entities.
@Leslie Fish Ma'am nearly every wobbly I've ever met was a hardcore communist what are you talking about? Why else is the union card red? Like, the labor movement of the early 20th century is almost synonymous with leftism in the states of that time. Mind you, perhaps this is a phrasing difference, but tankies aren't taking communism from me.
And with Obama it ends.
yeah I remember when Obama disbanded NASA. o wait...
>when you're a brainlet so you drag politics into a song about the space age
@@rigel1088 >when youre a brainlet and use green arrows outside of vietnamese rice farming forums
But i agree with the sentiment
@@rigel1088 also the space race was as political as it gets