1:43 There's something quietly marvelous about this picture. The sheer scale of the clouds visible below, the sense of lonesome openness, the illustration of physics by the inverted shuttle - it all speaks to the majesty of space flight.
In a tower of flame in Capsule Twelve I was there. I know not where they laid my bones; it could be anywhere. But when fire and smoke had faded, the darkness left my sight. . . And I found my soul in a spaceship's hull riding home on a trail of light. And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel. I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield. Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer; Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear? Before each morning's launch, they know that I am there. To the soul that warms this vessel's hull they say a silent prayer. I am father, ship, and spirit of the dream for which they strive. For I am man at the hands of man; see us rocket for the sky! And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel. I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield. Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer; Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear? My thunder rends the morning sky. Yes, I am here! Though lost to flame when I was man, now I ride her without fear. For I am more than man now, and man built me with pride. Oh, I led the way, and I lead the way, of man's future in the sky! And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel. I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield. Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer; Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
I am so happy to find this online. My tapes were lost when I moved to Canada and I cant find them online anywhere. I remember listening to this as the news of the Challenger disaster went over the air. I did cry
SpookiGreyman To explore the final frontier some have found their final resting place. They died to end our thrust for knowledge may their sacrifices not be in vain as we continue onwards to the places they once only dreamed of visiting.
Yes, Ryan Henson, TIn Hin Adulaton... Ms Ecklar's songs resonate across what I would call the generation gap to inspire EVERY generation to remember while the Eagle had landed... and to make sure time (and planetary idiocy) will never drive us down again.
Elon Musk has compensated for it. We have reusable space launch able to put *cars* up there. For a tenth of NASA costs, due to mass production. Praise the god of lightning!
the hearbreak isn't just that those budget cuts stop research---the tragedy is that the money from those budget cuts aren't being diverted into anything more worthwhile than a Senator's trips and vacations.
@Brokenankh This is what is called 'Tuckerization'. Using a RL name, or even just the veiled personality/character of a RL friend/etc. as a character in a story. (I should know, it's happened to me a couple times. It's one of the perils of living with a guy who makes his living as a sci-fi/fantasy author.)
@Brokenankh Ah. yeah. Actually, it's more the other way around. Fallen Angels has many slightly and more than slightly fictionalized real people in it. From both sci fi fandom, and the SCA. (Especially in and around Chicago, and the mid west.) Some of us have been around long enough to pick them out when we read it. For example Jenny Trout... IS Leslie Fish. But she's the only just the easiest to pick out. (That... and the 'lyrics' attributed to her songs are Leslie's. )
@@pathemeleski, it's a book by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. And, yes, it has a LOT of fictionalized versions of well-known figures in science fiction fandom.
Probably as the shuttle missions are pretty much the only (american) spacecraft missions that involved actual wings before maybe the landing system of the dragon motors, though I don't count them
@@Hunter12396 Really? Mine was that it's the spirit of the shuttle Columbia, reminiscing on her death (yes, I am aware that this song was written long before STS-107, but the lyrics just seemed to fit to me).
There are books who gave the story for the songs: Anne McCaffrey: "Brain & Brawn Ship Series (Gehirnschiff"-Reihe)...for those who want to read more :)
It is about the three brave astronauts who died on January 27, 1967 due to a fire during a test as Apollo 1 was less than a month from launch. They suited up, entered the Apollo command capsule (capsule 012) atop the unfueled rocket, were sealed in, and the high pressure, pure oxygen breathing system engaged. An electrical fire ignited the netting and other nylon materials in the pure oxygen, resulting in an explosive fire that caused the deaths of everybody aboard. Apollo 1 was cancelled and everything moved slower, with several rocket tests and unmanned flights. Eventually Apollo 7 did the manned orbital mission 1 was supposed to do, and Apollo 11 put the first humans on the moon two years later. The Apollo 1 crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee all died one sunny Friday afternoon moving us toward that goal, and -- as the song expresses so well -- their legacy will forever be part of our long march to the stars. The song itself is often used as a general homage to all who have given their lives in our efforts to reach space.
@@EvanEdwards my grandma knew those three men and every mecury, gemni and appolo astronaut and was devastated when those three brave men died. They will always be remembered as long as humans survive
This applies more to Starship than the shuttle. Starship is the spirit of the dream to which we strive and leads the way to man's future in the sky. On to mars and beyond.
Julia made a great studio recording of it for "To Touch the Stars" (in 1998), which we never used. I'm hoping we can get it finished and on Spotify in the next year or so.
Realizing how old this is... I think the company that had the copyright on a lot of these went out of business, so many of them are in limbo. I had box of cassettes stolen out of my car years ago and tried to get replacements and couldn't find them.
usta be, this only made me sad(ish) now it makes me actually cry...bastards really did shit can it all. Pretty much like the song, all in the name of budget and lack of balls.
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1:43 There's something quietly marvelous about this picture. The sheer scale of the clouds visible below, the sense of lonesome openness, the illustration of physics by the inverted shuttle - it all speaks to the majesty of space flight.
This should be on heavy rotation on the radio.
In a tower of flame in Capsule Twelve I was there.
I know not where they laid my bones; it could be anywhere.
But when fire and smoke had faded, the darkness left my sight. . .
And I found my soul in a spaceship's hull riding home on a trail of light.
And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel.
I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield.
Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer;
Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
Before each morning's launch, they know that I am there.
To the soul that warms this vessel's hull they say a silent prayer.
I am father, ship, and spirit of the dream for which they strive.
For I am man at the hands of man; see us rocket for the sky!
And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel.
I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield.
Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer;
Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
My thunder rends the morning sky. Yes, I am here!
Though lost to flame when I was man, now I ride her without fear.
For I am more than man now, and man built me with pride.
Oh, I led the way, and I lead the way, of man's future in the sky!
And my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel.
I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield.
Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer;
Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
I just discovered Julia Ecklar and musical cohorts on RUclips. A shame it's so hard to purchase or even find anywhere else.
I am so happy to find this online. My tapes were lost when I moved to Canada and I cant find them online anywhere. I remember listening to this as the news of the Challenger disaster went over the air. I did cry
Godspeed Apollo 1.
Godspeed
I didn't even tear up...
I literally cried. Dozens of teardrops.
Good golly.
let it all out, there, there
SpookiGreyman
To explore the final frontier some have found their final resting place. They died to end our thrust for knowledge may their sacrifices not be in vain as we continue onwards to the places they once only dreamed of visiting.
Not me. I may have leaked a little bit of liquid awesomeness from my very masculine ocular cavities...but I definitely didn't cry :P
Machines have souls. I've met several of them.
I had this cassette tape. It wore out from constant playing. Thanks for posting this. it brings back many good memories.
Yes, Ryan Henson, TIn Hin Adulaton... Ms Ecklar's songs resonate across what I would call the generation gap to inspire EVERY generation to remember while the Eagle had landed... and to make sure time (and planetary idiocy) will never drive us down again.
Micheal Feeney Aye ta that, fellow child of Terra.
The real tearjerker is listening to this right after Memorial.
RIP space shuttle program lets hope dragon can replace the legacy
I doubt it.
@@owenkegg5608 too bad for you its doing a pretty good job
@@spacecorpse3212 Hah
@@spacecorpse3212 at this point i think we can upgrade it to a really good job
What a voice!
Why am I only now coming across this awe inspiring lied?
This tends to make me cry a bit, likely because the bastards have thrown everything AND near space away in the name of 'budget cuts'
i agree, abandoning the reach for our destiny of being among the stars, was and is a grave mistake.
Elon Musk has compensated for it.
We have reusable space launch able to put *cars* up there. For a tenth of NASA costs, due to mass production.
Praise the god of lightning!
We'll reach those stars soon. I know it.
ArchAIngel > tfw your cult of personality calls you a god of lightning
> you can be a vengeful god now
the hearbreak isn't just that those budget cuts stop research---the tragedy is that the money from those budget cuts aren't being diverted into anything more worthwhile than a Senator's trips and vacations.
I want to thank you for uploading all this filk. I adore it, and shall have to try and find a copy for myself.
Man this music is so beautiful
What a beautiful song.
I feel like this is what Karan Sin'jet is singing through the Hiigarian space echonet.
(that Homeworld, for those who dont know.)
@Brokenankh This is what is called 'Tuckerization'. Using a RL name, or even just the veiled personality/character of a RL friend/etc. as a character in a story.
(I should know, it's happened to me a couple times. It's one of the perils of living with a guy who makes his living as a sci-fi/fantasy author.)
@Wrenn00
From the Divine Intervention tape/CD, the song Fallen Angel is about the Enterprise from Star Trek III.
@Brokenankh Ah. yeah. Actually, it's more the other way around. Fallen Angels has many slightly and more than slightly fictionalized real people in it. From both sci fi fandom, and the SCA. (Especially in and around Chicago, and the mid west.) Some of us have been around long enough to pick them out when we read it.
For example Jenny Trout... IS Leslie Fish. But she's the only just the easiest to pick out. (That... and the 'lyrics' attributed to her songs are Leslie's. )
What is "fallen Angels"? Another song? A movie? An episode?
@@pathemeleski, it's a book by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. And, yes, it has a LOT of fictionalized versions of well-known figures in science fiction fandom.
I'm unsure if I would connect this song to the shuttle, but thank you for uploading this.
Probably as the shuttle missions are pretty much the only (american) spacecraft missions that involved actual wings before maybe the landing system of the dragon motors, though I don't count them
@@owenkegg5608 Sure, but I like the interpretation that she's a true spacefarer- interplanetary or better.
@@flinko99 I don't really get that connection in my brain hole but it's pretty much open for any interpretation
@@owenkegg5608 I got the impression that it's one of the men killed in Apollo 1, whose spirit now lives on in the space shuttle
@@Hunter12396 Really? Mine was that it's the spirit of the shuttle Columbia, reminiscing on her death (yes, I am aware that this song was written long before STS-107, but the lyrics just seemed to fit to me).
The song is older than the book.
But the song was not the inspiration for the book, as you postulated. Fandom was the inspiration for the book.
There are books who gave the story for the songs: Anne McCaffrey: "Brain & Brawn Ship Series (Gehirnschiff"-Reihe)...for those who want to read more :)
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Good books, but the description puts this as being a memorial to dead astronauts.
It is about the three brave astronauts who died on January 27, 1967 due to a fire during a test as Apollo 1 was less than a month from launch. They suited up, entered the Apollo command capsule (capsule 012) atop the unfueled rocket, were sealed in, and the high pressure, pure oxygen breathing system engaged. An electrical fire ignited the netting and other nylon materials in the pure oxygen, resulting in an explosive fire that caused the deaths of everybody aboard.
Apollo 1 was cancelled and everything moved slower, with several rocket tests and unmanned flights. Eventually Apollo 7 did the manned orbital mission 1 was supposed to do, and Apollo 11 put the first humans on the moon two years later. The Apollo 1 crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee all died one sunny Friday afternoon moving us toward that goal, and -- as the song expresses so well -- their legacy will forever be part of our long march to the stars. The song itself is often used as a general homage to all who have given their lives in our efforts to reach space.
@@EvanEdwards my grandma knew those three men and every mecury, gemni and appolo astronaut and was devastated when those three brave men died. They will always be remembered as long as humans survive
Thanks for the tip. I've always thought it was about the space shuttle because of this video, but now I know It's about the "Spaceship Who Sang".
I know it's not but it does remind me of anne mccaffrey's brain ships series. I love the song and the books.
Tanya Tyndell "I sing in a spaceships heart ,does anybody hear?"
Brain ships? Have you read the bobiverse series?
some one better use this song in a space movie.
man i was still little when the space shuttle program was going on but i cant even imagine what that mustve been like lol
Rest in peace ed white, gus and chaffee
Amazing.
This applies more to Starship than the shuttle. Starship is the spirit of the dream to which we strive and leads the way to man's future in the sky. On to mars and beyond.
Impressive.
Did anyone have any luck finding this on Spotify?
Julia made a great studio recording of it for "To Touch the Stars" (in 1998), which we never used.
I'm hoping we can get it finished and on Spotify in the next year or so.
@@elig9401 Awesome!!!
I hear.
@Rahavin1 youtube. Or copies of copies of tapes if you have the right friends. It's long out of print, and legal troubles prevent re-printing.
I would not like to end up like this.
where can I get this album?
Realizing how old this is... I think the company that had the copyright on a lot of these went out of business, so many of them are in limbo. I had box of cassettes stolen out of my car years ago and tried to get replacements and couldn't find them.
@hobbified as I find. too bad. Good music needs to stay open! Love this stuff...
-A deathmetal-head thrashing monster
If you like this song you'll probably like The Cruxshadows - Satellite.
usta be, this only made me sad(ish) now it makes me actually cry...bastards really did shit can it all. Pretty much like the song, all in the name of budget and lack of balls.
The beginning of the song reminds me a bit of the horse tamer's daughter
@Brokenankh turns out they were totally wrong about the solar neutrino problem though :)
It was still speculation at the time the book was written. The different types of neutrinos was not yet known.
If Gus Grissom was reincarnated as a Space X Starship
RUclips delisted this as music
Which at least means it'll do picture-in-picture on mobile.
@@martinpaulsen1592 And no longer available on RUclips Music
RUclips should smc
I love the song, but the pics are wrong. "The Phoenix" launches daily from Terra IV (Mars,) so it is not a Space Shuttle.
I am the Joy of Terra, *for* the power I wield.
... Wings of tungsten? Sounds dodgy and overpriced.
Heat resistance.
AlHoresmi They're radiators, damnit!
_Licentia poetica._
There's plenty in the asteroid belt, much more than beer!
For Talos!