"Fire in the Sky" - American Space Age Anthem [+Lyrics]

[@rimfire8217]

"For no cradle lasts forever, every bird must learn to fly" wow that was the most Metal line in this. The Idea that everything on Earth has just been Humanities Infancy. Mind Blown.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

That is absolutely true. Earth is the cradle of Humanity. The Motherworld. But we have to spread our wings and move outward.

[@catlovernice]

Proud noises

[@ladywaffle2210]

"Earth is the cradle of Mankind, But Mankind cannot stay in it's cradle forever..." -some Russian name I can't pronounce, but it's a pretty name with the initials KT

[@vonbluhm7201]

@@ladywaffle2210 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian rocket scientist.

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@vonbluhm7201 Also the dude who invented the concept of multistage rockets!

[@saxtonhalegaming]

The Virgin Depressing Nihilist Anti-Humanity fan vs the Chad Indomitable Human Spirit Appreciator.

[@randomyankee8923]

Based

[@reapereye2122]

Very Based

[@kingdomofvinland8827]

Based

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

Nihilism is overrated anyways Long live optimism of humanity's future We survived being close to World War 3 once, we'll survive it all again

[@saxtonhalegaming]

@@VentiVonOsterreich Nihilism fans when I point a gun at their heads (They are suddenly very afraid)

[@therealgeneralMacArthur]

On December 8, 1903 the new york times claimed that "man won't fly for a million years". If you were a kid at that time, you would've lived long enough to see man fly to the fucking moon

[@Ketoku_fr]

Goes to show how much ground the word 'impossible' really stands on

[@thetau4866]

​@@Ketoku_frhumanity spits in the face of impossibility

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

We are called by the Divine Ultimate Creator to humble and discipline ourselves to achieve greatness!

[@RigepFroggit]

My grandfather was 5 years old when the Wright brothers flew. His father beat him because he didn't believe it and he told my grandfather "don't be a fool boy men don't fly." My grandfather saw men walk on the moon. He died when I was 11 in 1989. I remember him telling us all as kids not to be like his father, "don't be a fool like my father. Things change, the only impossible thing is the one you don't try. You kids go and build cities on the moon or I'm gonna be disappointed in you from heaven."

[@theprussianboi2573]

then a few days later the wright brothers took flight.

[@aramhalamech4204]

This song is weird when you were born after the space age/cold war. It seems like a part of the past, and a possible future at the same time.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

The real space age is just beginning, with commercial space travel and Artemis making the next steps after what will be remembered as a sort of peculiar "sitzkrieg" in our outbreak into the Universe.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@mylordandsaviour4786 The USSR was the second-worst abomination in human history after the Third Reich, but its collapse was a great loss to humanity. The Russian Federation is a festering swamp. A reformed USSR that embraced democracy, that had actually become a union of republics could have been a great benefit to humanity.

[@aramhalamech4204]

@@mylordandsaviour4786 Yeah, I've heard some already. But Sovietwave is more melancholic, while this one here is rather forward-looking and hope inspiring.

[@mandoguy2014]

You are describing hauntology. A nostalgia for a lost future

[@williaminnes6635]

​@@arcadiaberger9204 TL; DR we might have space gold all ready

[@takakocaesar579]

I love how this song covers three eras of space exploration. The past: Yuri Gagarin and Apollo Program The present: The Space Shuttle Program The future: nothing much but the desire to advance space exploration even more

[@stevenschnepp576]

That's a negative, the future is the Artemis Program. We're going back.

[@takakocaesar579]

@@stevenschnepp576 this song is written long before the Artemis program started. Also, that still doesn’t change the fact that we desire to do more space exploration

[@Cybernaut551]

@@takakocaesar579 Including Voyager 1 & 2

[@thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf9643]

We are humans, exploration is within the blood that courses through our veins.

[@mrschrubelhupfyay6397]

@@stevenschnepp576 Artemis goal is a base on the moon to get a human on mars, its a step forward

[@Wifgargfhaurh]

This feels like a bard in the future telling the story of American space exploration like it's a Greek epic

[@rion7088]

An Oracle of the Future

[@LegendOhil]

yes

[@DivusMagus]

this will soon need an extra verse when Artemis makes its first new step towards a colony.

[@KoishiVibin]

Decades after Apollo, when the well seemed to have burnt dry, It seemed to all as if the old dreams curled up and died. Constellation fell through, NASA in disgrace, all amid a president who decried to put an end to waste. We spent blood and money, rolling thunder across the floor, burned men and women in fire, without a thought of space. Yet in the end, we once again, looked up into the sky, through which the earliest man, has wished dearly to fly. Now comes Apollo's sister, bringing Gateway, and fire in the sky! I dunno, I'm typing this out on the toilet.

[@ndrgaming7344]

@@KoishiVibin That is a good verse ngl

[@frenchempire9471]

@@KoishiVibin bro that's pretty good

[@luodaniel8576]

@@KoishiVibin fits perfectly into the song

[@nintendofan1749]

@@KoishiVibin No worries Most of of us are reading this on the toilet 😅

[@TheGreenViewer456]

“and with challenger and seven, once again the price is paid. though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky!” *quite possibly the bravest thing anyone could ever say*

[@chrisb9143]

My reason for never wanting to be in a rocket: I don't like the idea of sitting on a pile of explosives

[@vastcarter]

@@chrisb9143 what you don’t wanna be sacrificed on the anvil of progress?

[@ReverendLeRoux]

It's hardly brave. There's a saying in safety, 'Every rule is written in blood.' There is nothing for us to do but to honor their sacrifice, unwitting as it may have been, to better refine our practices, and to never forget those who died along the way to get us where we are now.

[@TheSlamburger]

There’s worse ways to die, I suppose. May Challenger and her crew forever ride to glory on a fire in the sky.

[@epiceevee325]

I have reason to believe that “The Pheonix”, another song that popped up onto my playlist is entirely a reference to the Challenger disaster.

[@MichalisG1821]

"I'll remember until I die..." I'm old enough to remember the Shuttle program from the 90's until its conclusion. I was fortunate enough to attend three shuttle launches as a child. I watched 21 people go into space on an American-flagged Starship. The sound of the Shuttle launching was a sound you felt far more than one you heard. I remember all of it, over 20 years later. It's impossible to forget.

[@YourCorvus]

The story of Yuri Gagarin riding a metal rod of fire into the heavens is something straight out of mythology, everything about the Space Race is straight up *mythological* and divine. Every action the work of the gods and every failure a sad and failed test of hubris. Space is humanity's by birth right.

[@gasmaskalan1771]

man thats some "humans are space orcs" shit 💀💀💀

[@smokingsnake8276]

Poetic words, I love them

[@sethleoric2598]

The Emperor protects

[@whil1599]

@@gasmaskalan1771 lmao

[@whil1599]

@@sethleoric2598 The Emperor protects

[@Omegathyst]

If they wanted to update the Space Force anthem, make it this. It would perfectly embody everything the United States has done, and is doing, to understand the mysteries of the vast array of space beyond our homeworld. Per Aspera Ad Astra.

[@RainedOnParade]

Ya sure, but Doug Olsen did it better.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@RainedOnParade I disagree. I also think *_Hope Aeyrie_* would make a better anthem for the Space Force. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYmmZoilrZxjqNE It's easier to sing, for one thing.

[@joelsirola5440]

I think space man would be better option. And the motto should be Plus Ultra- Further Beyond.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@joelsirola5440 Is *_Space Man_* a song?

[@SCBA-if4wl]

Per ardua ad astra?

[@lordlakko6902]

I'm not even American but now I want to enroll in the American space empire

[@keyabrade1861]

See, that's the thing about the US: you can.

[@lordlakko6902]

@@keyabrade1861 Oh yeah, gonna be a space mercenary like the ones in the congo in the 1960s yay

[@dylangtech]

I’ll give the same suggestion I gave to Mexicans, Canadians, and Puerto Ricans who say this: Make your state/province/country apply for statehood. It ain’t as bad as the media says it is. Hopefully my country will be more open to peaceful expansion in the future :) edición: ¿Donde esta? Ellos nos enseñan Español y me recuerda, pero no mucho…

[@zekehollier1086]

Some day my friend

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@dylangtech Now this, I'm in favor of, strongly. I have my eye on any or all of Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, the Bahamas (homeland of Alexander Hamilton, let's not forget) and Jamaica as "low-hanging fruit", and on Cuba and Haiti as "urgent projects" for us to reform the way we should have done in the South after the Civil War. Those last two are countries which would have done much better if they had joined the Union a hundred years ago, and they are threats to our security on our doorstep right now, so let's make a project out of upgrading them now.

[@Un_soldat]

Never heard this but now I’m hooked

[@Actovania]

If you have Spotify I recommend you listen to this collection it's featured on open.spotify.com/album/6O6x80DAj6xN6VAsqSn563 Some of the songs are sci-fi but many of them are renditions of older songs that tell historical tales like this one. Star Fire by Julia Ecklar is a great example. And if you were ever wondering, here's the original acoustic version kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip_NaYWAerKqj5I

[@Un_soldat]

@@Actovania I will most definitely look into it this one was great :D

[@KeraAssolAssolRewoVinum]

There’s a lot more songs like this one, it’s an entire genre called filk

[@utubrGaming]

Artemis One has lifted off less than a week ago. And I watched that candle lit live, and saw her climb and blaze a fire in the sky.

[@jorgegandara984]

Begins with "God's fire" brought to man by Prometheus. Finishes with "our fire" carried to the sky. Chills.

[@thisisabandonedgosomewhereelse]

true

[@seankane8628]

Until we return to the Gods what Prometheus took.

[@thetau4866]

​@seankane8628 as is only right!

[@evilsclone2499]

​@@thetau4866we'll give those bastards our fire alright

[@kaiserslavaniaashur1623]

@@seankane8628 Prometheus is part of greek mythology 😂 get your religious goonery out of here

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

How cute it is to mention that Soviet Union was the first in space. I like the song as well as Soviet Cosmonauts' songs, they are all about one beautiful dream of humanity, just in different languages

[@malevolence89]

Cute is a funny word.

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

I'm not very fluent in English so I may sometimes make some funny mistakes haha

[@nathan51782]

do you have any titles of soviet cosmonauts' songs? :D

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

@@nathan51782 "14 минут" (aka "Я верю, друзья") "И на Марсе будут яблони цвести" "Созвездие Гагарина" "Слава вперёдсмотрящему" These are my favorite ones, maybe there are more, I'm not into it

[@nathan51782]

@@Maxim_Kuzin спасибо! ))

[@samsungsmartfridge3173]

Coming back to this after Artemis 1 launched, per aspera ad astra.

[@chazzwozzio]

Through adversity to the stars!

[@gooberone]

@@chazzwozzio wrong translation, the correct translation if i remember correctly is "through hardship to the stars"

[@sonicgoku4]

That last picture of the Astronaut holding an American Flag goes so hard

[@deltumn5899]

Bro it does

[@doubel9245]

goes astronomically hard

[@threestrikesmarxman9095]

That's John Young. He flew in every NASA manned spaceflight program except Mercury.

[@cosmosyn2514]

not my taste, imo it looks a bit too soviet in its artstyle. would prefer have a bit of age to the style, more like the paintings of crossing the delaware or the declaration of independence

[@granthuffmanreal]

Its a mural at the Johnson space center and it is the coolest peace of art I have ever seen

[@sg4644]

The song has a special type of energy. It sounds exactly like the verses from the Rig Veda that describe the chariots instead of space shuttles, as mighty, descended-from-the-Gods like fashion, with daring men riding them to conquer new lands, some being martyred in war, and some victorious but all attaining glory. I guess people in the Bronze Age might have seen chariots with the same fascination that we see space shuttles!

[@mushroomcloud5305]

Beautifully put

[@ZemanTheMighty]

That’s very interesting. It’s fascinating how reality becomes mythology over the course of history

[@moritamikamikara3879]

I gotta read the Rig Veda at some point... already got through the Norse Eddas, gonna try some Indian mythology next.

[@anirudh177]

​@@moritamikamikara3879If you're gonna, use the Jamison-Brereton translation.

[@dolphingoreeaccount7395]

Or pull an Oppenheimer and learn Sanskrit

[@henrygaylordswanson]

I know you probably don't care, but I have fallen in love with this song. I cannot find it anywhere else, it seems to be somewhat niche. If you had not introduced it to me nobody would have. When I was a young boy, I dreamed of being an astronaut. You have awakened something within me I had forgotten was there. Thank you so much.

[@shadowcat69420]

it's weird knowing that the first person ever in space didn't even see the moonlanding

[@arcadiaberger9204]

He didn't even die in a spaceflight accident - just a seemingly routine jet flight.

[@dylangtech]

@@arcadiaberger9204 Watch “First Man” and it’s one death after another to such mundane things, and Neil Armstrong more or less had to fill in for them. What an incredibly difficult cross to bear!

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

@@arcadiaberger9204 Of a jet which was outdated by the standards of the time he flew it in, iirc it was a MiG-15

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@corinthianimperialstudios704 But he died like a jet jockey - calmly trying to keep it under control until the last moment.

[@SRR-5657]

Yeah, on the flip side, the first American in space would end up being the last on the moon. For now at least.

[@disembodiednarrator]

This unironically rocks

[@Coloradorivr]

Came back to this right after Artemis 1 was launched. Soon, there will be brave astronauts riding the fire in the sky once more and continuing our venture back to the moon.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

"Soon, there will be brave diversity hires riding the fire in the sky once more and continuing our venture back to the moon" There, I fixed it for you.

[@Coloradorivr]

You just had to ruin it with a shitty political take. Amazing.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

@@Coloradorivr kek, look at the press, one of the first things they always mention is genitalia or skin color. It is dead obvious and I half expect to see twerking on the moon.

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

Take solace, Greg, in the fact that whomever they send will still be more qualified than you will ever be as an astronaut. IIRC literally one of the Artemis astronauts was a Navy SEAL _and_ a Doctor before his current space gig.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

​@@randompheidoleminor3011 Yeah, at least they don't have to dilate everyday like you do.

[@JoetheDilo1917]

There's an old Latin phrase I like, "Per Aspera, Ad Astra." It means "Through hardship, to the stars." We've been goin' through quite a bit of the former in recent years, and I think it's about damn time we did a bit of the latter. Godspeed, Artemis. Bring our fire to the sky again, for all mankind.

[@cpob2013]

If Livia hadn't murdered all of Augustus heirs like agrippa, rome would be on Mars by now

[@santigamerprogamer6493]

@@cpob2013 I mean, I would think that the crisis of the 3rd century would have been a bigger turning point in the delay of an industrial revolution

[@cringeexpert1851]

Сквозь терни к звездам

[@kensummers7757]

"Through Strife to the Stars" Motto of the Royal Air Force (established 1918)

[@sovietball2161]

Nice that this song recognises both American and Soviet efforts

[@acutechicken5798]

It is great because when we go to space, it is easier to see we are one race: the human race. The choice was a good one for that reason.

[@kevinbrewis9109]

Because space should be for all of us together

[@gamingtheory6035]

Why should it? When was the last time the Russians ever recognized US accomplishments? Soviet/Russian fanboys are pathetic.

[@OnlyGrafting]

No one wants to take our conflicts out of this world. Because we all know it's disrespectful to the vast and beautiful universe above to taint the stars with petty squabbles from home. Earth is our home to ruin, above is not.

[@davidfoldberg8004]

@@acutechicken5798 We aren't the human race but the human species. And not all races should go to space.

[@nickmalachai2227]

"Gagarin was the first, back in 1961" Not just the US, not even just the Americas. A tower to the stars must have foundations stronger than a single nation. We're all in this together, and it's only together that we'll achieve what we need to be.

[@mrpineapple3942]

Gagarin was Soviet, but yes that holds true.

[@nickmalachai2227]

@@mrpineapple3942 I'm aware of the nationality of the first man in space. My comment from nearly a year ago was more to point out how "American space age anthem" is a misnomer: This isn't about the US, this is about the world at large.

[@AlexC-ou4ju]

this song is actually fire

[@SethSeht]

in the sky

[@Noorthia]

@@SethSeht and a thunder 'cross the land

[@EmperorProtects1]

@@Noorthia I'll remember until I die!

[@alexdreFalke]

I like that the song also talks about Gagarin's achievements. Room for some cooperation in the cold war

[@mushroomy9899]

“A nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding a fire in the sky” THAT IS *SO* METAL

[@xHugoxN7]

Growing up in FL and seeing 'Fire in the Sky' regularly this song is even better.

[@yamao4938]

Never has a song given me this much hope. Thank you.

[@ndrgaming7344]

And we won’t stop till the Stars and Stripes are flying in another galaxy!

[@utubrGaming]

The only acceptable red flag first on the red planet.. is a red, white and blue flag!

[@ndrgaming7344]

@@utubrGaming Agreed!

[@fintherebel5000]

Despite the dream of traveling through space to other galaxies and planets we are still quite far from achieving said dream

[@philosophicalpatriot1883]

​@@fintherebel5000 Not with that attitude!

[@fintherebel5000]

@@philosophicalpatriot1883 Well if you look at our current political situation and our modern space technology we are at least a generations worth behind in that field and more then likely we won't see any advancements in our lifetime other then what Elon is working on but that's still far from what we should be today we could've been 10x more advanced by now if we'd just focus on what's important but we are more focused on less important matters

[@IndigenousRealGuy]

Sad thing is a few months after this version of the song was released in 2003 Columbia disintegrated in the atmosphere. God speed.

[@rosefeather_]

You sure? It was released in 2004, and it mentions the tragedy of Columbia. "And with Challenger and seven, once again the price is paid. Though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry, as they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky". "Her" here probably refers to Columbia.

[@IndigenousRealGuy]

@@rosefeather_ yeah i thought that too but from what i believe (i could be wrong) that this version was released in 2003 for a NASA event and was officially released in 2004. Could be wrong but that’s what I think.

[@threestrikesmarxman9095]

@@rosefeather_ The Challenger referred to here is the space shuttle _Challenger_ that exploded during launch in 1986.

[@ikillstupidcomments]

@@rosefeather_ It's a reference to the 1987 Challenger disaster where the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up shortly after takeoff, killing her crew of seven. The picture shown in memorial is of her crew, astronauts Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, and Resnik in the back row, with Smith, Scobee, and McNair in the front row. The original release in 1983 did not have that verse.

[@bersig]

I'm old enough to remember watching them make the first footprints on the moon. I remember the Salyuts, Mir, Skylab, all the Shuttles. And ISS. I was watching when both Voyagers touched the Earth for the last time. I played hooky from middle school to watch the first pictures from the surface of Mars come down from Viking, strip by strip. One of my first jobs after graduating school was changing mag tapes for the Voyager Neptune encounter. Ulysses, Galileo, Cassini, all the Mars landers from Sojourner (aka pathfinder) to Spirit and Opportunity to Curiosity to Perseverance and Ingenuity... Yep, I got to see a helicopter fly on Mars! I watch them all go up. Even worked on a few myself. Pictures of the surface of Pluto from New Horizons. Thanks to Kepler, TESS, and now James Web, thousands of extraterrestrial planets are now known to exist, including a couple around the next-closest star to Earth. I cheered with everyone else as SpaceX's Falcon boosters came back to land, upright and ready to go again, as god and Heinlein intended, some of them after delivering people to the ISS. A few months ago the first (uncrewed) Artemis test flight flew around the Moon and came back to an Apollo-style splashdown at sea. Just a couple weeks ago I watched Starship and Super Heavy make their first orbital launch attempt. It failed, but there's already 3 more Starships under construction nearby. What an amazing time to have lived. And I may yet live to see even more amazing things. It was only 30 years from the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk to the Boeing 247 airliner after all.

[@lynxspatial]

And you play ksp...

[@dolphingoreeaccount7395]

Amen to that! I hope the best for you.

[@Archduke_Astatos]

As all good cosmonaut songs do, just like 14 minutes to launch it doesn't mention ideological warfare or supremacy over others, but simply encourages *humanity* as a whole, this song even going as far as to praise the USSR. Definitely one of my favorites.

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

The space race is what war should be like, no actual fighting, just two powers competing to reach the next greatest achievements

[@Cybernaut551]

I agree.

[@minute0420]

so an arms race?

[@MrMcFish219]

@@minute0420 Sort of, but no arms, and no threatening each other.

[@minute0420]

@@MrMcFish219 unarmed race

[@smokeyplane3285]

they were competing for who could make the best ballistic missiles to nuke the enemy, but the scientific & technological advances that came from this arms race were awesome

[@-_-1336]

Нам стоит сказать спасибо всем этим сотням тысячам людям, которые были задействованы в работе над космическими программами. Также стоит сказать спасибо всем людям на Земле, жертвы и деньги которых позволили добиться запуска огня в небо

[@-_-1336]

Лол, я второй раз написал комментарий

[@ChristianNationalist654]

You may not know English but i agree. Earth is our mother and like children growing up we must move on and colonize space. Because Earth will not last forever and to ensure our survival space is our only option. Every planet is destined to die and the species that do not move will die with them.

[@tomaszkietyka2325]

I strongly reccomend people to listen to the album this song originally came out on - "Minus Ten and Counting" it's an amazing album, up there with some of the other Filk classics. Especially to songs like "Toast for Unknown Heroes", "Pioneer's Song", "One Way to Go", "The Moon Miners", and *especially* "Mass Driver Engineer"

[@samlinton1294]

I still wonder why we got banned from argo

[@ysbrand1114]

Love the tribute of Gagarin

[@14thbkrctsecks]

despite being enemies, we must admit the ussr did a great job too

[@stevenschnepp576]

@@14thbkrctsecks We wouldn't have gone to the Moon without their rivalry. America needs worthy rivals, not third-world holes.

[@Kira-sb3cx]

The moon is our door into eternity. Once we colonize the moon, there is nothing stopping us.

[@danitron4096]

We will carry the stars and stripes to the moon and beyond

[@ChristianNationalist654]

Humans will become dominant. Earth is our mother and like life we must leave our mother eventually or else our species will not survive

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@danitron4096 YES! God willing!

[@tateranus4365]

@@danitron4096 you mean to the entire observable universe and beyond!

[@KerbalProductions777]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588by the grace of Our Lord and God, our Holy Cross shall conquer the entire universe, as far as the East is from the West! Per Aspera Ad Astra!

[@aerodynamism5438]

Fuck, let's start this Second Space Age already!

[@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry]

basedium mine opinion above me

[@martinvarga5091]

This song makes all of our earthly bickering and troubles look so small and insignificant... Love it

[@eddieromanov]

This is for Artemis I, Heinlein, and old Rhysling, wherever he is… The arching sky is calling Spacemen back to their trade All hands stand by free falling And the light below us fade Out ride the sons of Terra Far drives the thundering jet Up leaps the race of Earthmen Out far and onward yet We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool green hills of Earth

[@threestrikesmarxman9095]

Where does the last part go? The first two fit nicely but the third one doesn't feel like it fits without a fourth.

[@eddieromanov]

@@threestrikesmarxman9095 In the story the first two verses are the first two verses of the song and the last is the last. In between is an some large quantity of verses that’s never really specified.

[@dolphingoreeaccount7395]

I'd like but as of March 12 2023 there's 69, I cannot ruin this

[@stevenschnepp576]

@@eddieromanov It probably didn't hurt that Rhysling was dying of radiation poisoning when he recorded it.

[@benjackson1454]

​@@threestrikesmarxman9095 Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me As they rove around the girth Of our lovely mother planet Of the cool, green hills of Earth. We've tried each spinning space mote And reckoned its true worth: Take us back again to the homes of men On the cool, green hills of Earth. The arching sky is calling Spacemen back to their trade. ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING! And the lights below us fade. Out ride the sons of Terra, Far drives the thundering jet, Up leaps a race of Earthmen, Out, far, and onward yet --- We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth. ~Robert A. Heinlein That's the full poem I think

[@broodbassoon105]

Born too late to explore the world. Born too early to explore the stars. Born at exactly the right time to ensure our children do.

[@miletopic4775]

born just in time to explore the solar system tho!

[@capitancuba1]

Haha,nah,global collapse is near. Birthrates are declining everywhere,there's gonna be too few young people soon enough. So not our children,our children's children's children maybe. Collapse and cultural revolution is gonna happen first tho.

[@bobatesomemayo]

@@capitancuba1 Its always "the end of the world" yet it still hasnt ended yet

[@TheOneWh0Knocks]

At the porch of the new age, we did add to space an X, To take our vision up high, To make even greater steps. We are thundering through space, for our mission to supply, The falcon came down lightly with a fire in the sky. We are coming back to resume what we've begun, With Artemis we'll show again, How the unthinkable is done. Looking at the galaxy with a single-minded eye, We will strut to Planet Mars to keep the fire in the sky.

[@outtatouch6592]

love it. nearly teared up when i read it

[@Charles37400]

Dude this song is so much better than the one they picked for the space force

[@GenZRemnant9748]

i didn't know what to expect but this is a great clap back to "I believe my friends"

[@adamas4563]

The algorithm is smiling down upon us, like a fire in the sky.

[@Texan8505]

Space Force should've had this for their anthem

[@arcadiaberger9204]

Good idea.

[@dylangtech]

Should be NASA’s imo. Sounds too exploratory. Not inspirational enough for those who seek to protect Americans in space. Think of it like a song for Christopher Columbus versus a song for the Spanish Armada

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@dylangtech Ugh, not much to choose from, there: a song for a deluded rapist and mass murderer, or a song for a tool of imperialist conquest...?

[@dylangtech]

@@arcadiaberger9204 I mean..... if you're talking about explorers and militares in general, Columbus and the Armada is the pristine example of both, respectfully. Might want to tone down your baseless accusations.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

@@dylangtech Baseless? What is "baseless" about quoting the words of Columbus himself? "They would make fine slaves…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." "She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But...I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly...Eventually...you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores." And don't give me any of that relativist shit about "judging him by the standards of his time", because even during his lifetime, many people considered him a monster. That's why he made his last trip home from the New World in chains, to be tried for his brutal incompetence as a Governor.

[@kingsman4628]

For all Mankind!!✊✊♥thanks U.S.A. for the mother of all adventures

[@mohammadhassan5461]

Soviet union was in space first

[@timesnewlogan2032]

I love the respect for Gagarin, our worthy rival.

[@radicalgremlin6440]

To be honest the space race, was much a rivalry, and one of respect. It pushed each nation go strive to do better.

[@timesnewlogan2032]

@@radicalgremlin6440 I seem to recall there being discussions of merging the American and Soviet space programs, but I could be wrong.

[@radicalgremlin6440]

@@timesnewlogan2032 would have been a very radical plan, as there was huge anti soviet sentiment at the time. For the government at least. Not as sure how each space program felt.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

​@@radicalgremlin6440From what I've heard, when NASA landed on the Moon, the Soviet space program gave them a call to congratulate them. The Space Programs had a lot of respect for each other.

[@Anthony_Cika]

Loathe the Ideals, but love the people.

[@dylonjewell4515]

This gave me goosebumps.

[@Cpt_Boony_Hat]

Aye literally and that doesn’t happen to me

[@kingliberty7613]

This is the fire that Prometheus brought to man

[@chad2293]

I like how this song recognizes the Russian and American achievements and keep’s politics out of it.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodcl4824]

Soviet* not only Russian

[@djdvelo2295]

one of the few songs that for some reason gives me chills to listen to

[@GovernmentalMoments]

the Chinese may have Red Sun In The Sky, but we American's got Fire In The Sky.

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Both are bangers

[@Eoin999]

“And there was one small step, and a fire in the sky!” Iconic, Just Iconic Edit: Thanks so much for all the likes. I’ve never had this many before. Ad Astra Per Áspera.

[@Eoin999]

It is so weird finding myself on a video a year ago

[@Eoin999]

it happened again

[@SuperODST1]

Filk deserves far more recognition than it gets. Yes filk is a term, not a typo, look it up

[@aidankeys8534]

The song is so good, even the auto-captions can make out the majority of it.

[@thefallenrift1705]

This is unbelievably awesome

[@loptercopter1386]

Unimaginablely based I hope this reaches 331 million views

[@couldbeanybody2508]

Why so specific lmao

[@Mr_Blah]

@@couldbeanybody2508It’s the population of the US

[@Bobs113]

This song is actually one of the alarms on my cell phone. It wakes me up every morning. 😸❤️

[@ThatDamnedAmericanUSA]

Gonna be playing this until Friday. Hopefully Artemis’ number three engine is fixed for then

[@bonelessvegetal818]

yes there would be a fire in the sky

[@gerogegerog5926]

Fire in the sky

[@Intelwinsbigly]

Yes, it would be terrible if something happened to the diversity hire expedition to the moon.

[@gerogegerog5926]

@@Intelwinsbigly there is nothing wrong with diversity

[@schnegva7801]

@@gerogegerog5926 I mean there is like one situation in which there's something wrong, never send a disabled person to a war zone

[@IshijimaKairo]

I like how this song doesn't split humanity into the Good and Bad, but as a collective burning the heavens to spite the Gods.

[@soffren]

Storming the gates of heaven to spite the gods. I like that. I like that a lot.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

@@soffren going to look them in they I like that more than "storming the gates of heaven" but I guess it's because the implication is curiosity or settling a grievance more than conquest.

[@papaduck5251]

​@@henrypaleveda7760 as soon as they forget to close it all the way, at least *one* of us is gonna get in there just to see what's there

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Unbased take. We're going back to heaven to make god proud.

[@starcatcherksp1517]

@@moritamikamikara3879Depends on which God. Zeus actually punished Prometheus for giving humans fire

[@jamesharding3459]

2:10 The Shuttle program had so much potential. If NASA can convince Congress to green-light and fund a Shuttle 2.0 to take full advantage of the advances made in the last 40 years, the possibilities are endless.

[@sharkentist1232]

Love how it doesn’t even take sides, space exploration is a human triumph, neither Soviet nor American.

[@ChristianNationalist654]

Exactly nations need to cooperate to ensure survival. Earth is our mother and in life we must leave our mothers or else humans will go extinct

[@justjoe5373]

>American Space Age anthem

[@daltonjohnson3134]

Even if it was originally American, it can be one that inspires the whole of humanity!

[@xenn4985]

We are, after all, the most racially inclusive nation on the planet

[@randomyankee8923]

@@xenn4985 uh

[@xenn4985]

@@randomyankee8923 Problem?

[@randomyankee8923]

@@xenn4985 that "most racially inclusive" part

[@xenn4985]

@@randomyankee8923 Yeah, it is. I'm pretty sure america has higher percentages of various races participating in society than any other country on the planet. Shit, the racial majority isn't even the most successful race, asians take that trophy.

[@TheTidesKnife]

I love this! The song is amazing and the editing on the video is great as well

[@LostAmidTheEchos]

As I listen here, tears fill my eyes. We had such hope once, and now look how we view space... just an extension of our earthy dystopia.... Where is our dreaming of something better? Where is the dreams that we once held so high?

[@paul7432]

They’re still here brother, just not spoken about every day. Just wait until we reach Mars and the Fire burns again! There is a dream, a dream that we can colonize the stars and advance forth the flags of Mankind unto the untamed frontier. Such a dream has been with us for many centuries, and it still is present today, just in different form.

[@randomyankee8923]

The flame of our rockets will be reignited when we go on a great galactic conquest

[@kaine6076]

the fires of hope burn bright still brother, and one day we will claim the stars.

[@ZarjkPC]

I feel like KZbin didn't want me to find this tonight. My drunk ass needed some Space Age invigoratiation however.

[@Azegzaw1]

This slapped harder than I expected

[@dskero]

It's incredible and I sorta just stumbled on it. Thank you YT algorithm.

[@nikitaavdeev9681]

The achievements of American Space Program are immeasurable! I believe in Humanity ruling the vast space. Love from Russia!

[@gregoryfilin8040]

Never forget, the Russians fumbled, fell, and walked so America could run. It's insane to think we have landing rockets continuously getting better.

[@peanutmoose9591]

WE ARE GOING BACK!!! ARTIMUS BABY

[@ljr6490]

Can't wait for the Artemis manned lunar missions

[@Koda4507]

i need this as an instrumental. i love this.

[@a_bruh]

WE MAKIN IT OUTTA APOLLO 1 WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯

[@dankengine5304]

Not the challenger tho 💀

[@mahdi.html.]

nah you trippin

[@a_bruh]

@@mahdi.html. nah bro i know i ain't

[@therealgeneralMacArthur]

​@@dankengine5304nah bro that's foul

[@dankengine5304]

@@therealgeneralMacArthur 🚀 💥

[@GreenGj-]

Doctor Kare may no longer be with us, but now his legacy will live on

[@sporpolaka5552]

This song hits differently after artemis 1 launch

[@unnot5706]

1903: Warner Bros First Flight 1969: Humans Fly All The Way To The Damn Moon.

[@a_bruh]

Wright Brothers, not Warner Bros

[@unnot5706]

@@a_bruh Damn

[@tateranus4365]

yeah and if NASA didn't get their funding slashed after Apollo it would look more like 1903: the wright brothers invent heavier than air flight late 1957: the soviet union launches a satellite into orbit early 1958: the US launches the second sattelite and the first to be of any use 1961: the ussr launches humans into orbit 1969: the US lands humans on the moon 1974: the US builds a permanent space station in low earth orbit 1975: the US builds a space station around the moon and a permanent base 1978: the US builds cities on the moon and starts terraforming it 1979: the US sends probes to proxima centauri but they aren't expected to get data back until 2003 1980: the first manned mission to mars touches down and the US starts work on a settlement 1983: the US has a permanent base on mars fully operational 1986: the US builds an outpost on mercury and starts work on a Dyson swarm around the sun 1990: the US sends manned expeditions to the outer planets 1992: the Dyson swarm is now partially operational and has solved the energy demands of the entire human race for the next billion years 1994: the Dyson swarm is fully complete and is used to start terraforming venus and speed up terraforming mars 1996: the moon is habitable and has plant and animal life on most of its surface 1998: the first probes to proxima centauri are built and launched from the surface of the moon 2000: the US has made spaceflight so accessible and drove costs down so much that asteroid mining for gold, platinum and rare earth elements is rapidly becoming profitable 2002: a group of students at MIT become the first student group to put a satellite in orbit 2003: the US gets the results back from the probes we sent to proxima centauri 2004: the US builds a massive orbital shipyard for the titanic spacecrafts required to send humans to proxima centauri 2005: the US starts work on the largest spacecrafts even even designed (so massive they make aircraft carriers look like rowboats in comparison) 2008: the costs of spaceflight have dropped even more and asteroid mining for more common elements like copper and zinc are rapidly becoming profitable 2010: the colony ships are well underway and the massive number of workers required for their construction have expanded the shipyard to a large city of 50+ million 2016: mars is now habitable and can support complex animal life 2024 the colony ships are nearly complete and set to leave for the stars in the next few years

[@heldercaze6333]

Santos Do mont was First 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@christopherjustice6411]

We’re orbiting the moon in 2024 and returning in 2025. Artemis 2 and 3 are gonna need their own verse in this amazing song.

[@danitron4096]

AMERICA BABYYYY

[@shadychandelure2602]

Well we'll just have to craft our own

[@realPlanetb]

​@@danitron4096united nations yeah baby

[@isaacshultz8128]

What a badass song

[@paockedtammai1591]

damn, I just discovered this even though I'm not American I must say this song is absolute banger!

[@SatanicPizza]

Everything from this goes hard

[@Zamtrios245]

Those 50 stars will be literal soon enough

[@AhNoWiC]

Despite all our problems as a culture, this shit really hits at the crux of our motivation, progress.

[@massivecnut5910]

Filk music will never not make me smile, such an amazing time capsule to nerd culture before it became mainstream

[@rogersparker5875]

New song to blast while playing kerbal aquired

[@kevinmontufar2431]

We need to conquer space

[@TaraZaraChara]

Here's to Artemis! The flames might have died a bit, but the fire is still burning strong!

[@Anthony_Cika]

We may have banked the fire for a time. But embers burn long. All we needed was some fuel.

[@nyxian4832]

Remember when you think you're useless, you're the only thing on this planet that has a concept of their own importance. Be proud. You're human after all

[@Myname-cb9ru]

Space and the stars is the patrimony of mankind as a whole. it belongs to every single human: past or future. like the ancient polynesians, exploring the pacific, so will we explore the vast ocean out there.

[@dolphingoreeaccount7395]

It is an honor to be descended from one of the scientists who brought us there

[@yeah30]

BACK TO THE MOON BABY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@jamesThebulbmin]

FREEDOM MUST REGIN OVER EVERY LAST STAR

[@unsuisseegare1291]

THROUGH CITIZEN'S BLOOD SPILLED IN OUR RIGHTEOUS WARS

[@Pecktackular-9000]

WE WERE BORN TO INHERIT THE STARS

[@firedogman2280]

Per Aspera, Ad Astra

[@Mini_Knight17]

Per Ardua Ad Astra

[@detleffleischer9418]

Ex Astris, Scientia

[@secondsonofliberty2321]

I think song is the saddest song ever made. Filled with such hopefull determination for the future of America in space only to see us less then 40 years late accomplishing so little

[@boydrobertson2362]

Nah, the only reason people think we've accomplished little is because we have been doing things with unmanned missions.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

I have good news

[@bobatesomemayo]

google the Artemis program WE ARE GOING BACK

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

Vostok faced heavenward so Gagarin could open the doors to the final frontier. The Eagle took roost on the moon to avenge challenger. Now Artemis aims for Mars so our children can ride her arrows.

[@ComradePhoenix]

God, I can't wait for someone to play this in space.

[@cornishpasty7853]

I think this song is more for the space age as a whole rather than just for America