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Space Ship One

from Space & Freedom by Mark Horning

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The Space Ship One Trilogy #1:
Written based solely on the Aviation and Space Technology article when she was first unveiled.

lyrics

Chorus:

-Did you hear they're building spaceships, in the California sun?
-Reliable, and cheap to build, the race is all but won.
-The doubters they can stay behind, their day is all but done,
-The rest of us are going to the stars.

They built her as a secret, but I know they built her well,
And have laid up carbon fiber in a strong epoxy shell.
Aluminum and fiberglass make her light enough to sail,
And she rides a hybrid rocket with no turbo-pumps to fail.

Oh she's built by Scaled Composites, and good old Burt Rutan,
And if anyone can do it, I know that those folks can.
And they built her under budget, with no taxpayer funds.
The first truly private spacecraft, so they call her Space Ship One.

Rpt Chorus-

High above the desert, at Edwards AFB,
The X-15 broke through the sky, the black of space to see.
And 40 odd years later, in those self-same very skies,
A rocket-powered ship will roar, as through the sky she flies.

Bridge:
---A hundred years since Kitty Hawk,
---And Will and Orville Wright.
---She's the greatest aviation jewel,
---In a century of Flight.

Well I know she won't make orbit, but she's over half way there.
And once you are in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.
Give them another decade; they'll build cities on the moon.
The future starts tomorrow. Make way for Space Ship Two!

Rpt Chorus-

Pack your bags; we're going to the stars.

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from Space & Freedom, released June 4, 2009
Words and Music: Mark E. Horning

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