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Commander Carpenter and his flying machine (part 3)

from Tony Brown at Geek Pop by Tony Brown

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Aurora Seven (officially Mercury-Atlas 7, or MA-7) was the second American spaceship to orbit the earth, and was piloted by Scott Carpenter.

This is a song of four halves, Brian:
(i) Scott’s fireflies (discovery)
(ii) “I can see individual fields” (drifting)
(iii) “Real tight on fuel, Gus” (re-entry)
(iv) A little black fish, as friendly as can be (floating)

The mission communications excerpts used are courtesy of NASA. The full transcript of the flight can be found at: www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/MA07_TEC.PDF

Lyrics are for part (iv).

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A little black fish
And a spaceman
In the middle of the sea
Comparing notes on weightlessness
And the things that they have seen
So far above
So far below
And the thing that they both know
That to see
Your spirit
Should be free

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from Tony Brown at Geek Pop, released March 10, 2011

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