You Will Not Go To Space Today - A Musical Tribute To Rocket Crashes
8,111Words by Scott, music, melody & performance by Skye, Rocket crashes provided by armies of dedicated engineers working with zero margin for error. We thank these engineers for their work and hope they embrace failure as a learning opportunity.
Every line refers to one or more specific failure of a spacecraft, sometimes quite spectacular.
Lyrics:
If your main fuel tank has sprung a leak
You will not go to space today
If your I M U is upside down
You will not go to space today
If your flight com pu ter can’t count that high
You will not go to space today
If your S R B has a hairline crack
You will not go to space today
They say space is hard
So you know that it’s ok
that your rocket just crashed into the ground
And you didn’t go to space today.
When your gy-ro-scopes hit gimbal lock
You will not go to space today
When hyd rau lic fluid gets used up
You will not go to space today
When you lose con tact with ground control
You will not go to space today
When your cab les short and gets unplugged
You will not go to space today
They say space is hard
So you know that it’s ok
that your payload simply failed to deploy
And it didn’t stay in space today.
(solo?)
RUD and FTS
will ruin any day.
Sometimes your probe will lithobrake.
Or burn up in the air……
If a helium tank just won’t stay put
You will not go you space today
If there’s Solid Oxygen in your tanks
You will not go to space today
If your turbo-pump can’t handle the load.
You will not go to space today
And sometimes politics gets in the way
and you’ll never go to space today.
Or ever for that matter…..