fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 IGNITION BLAST OFF!!!!!!!!
Well, would you like to be an astronaut?
Well, would you like to be an astronaut?
Would you like to be an astronaut?
- Thread starter fuzzybuddy
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Falcon
DV8
- Location
- So. California
Nope. Too confining.
Mollypops
Member
- Location
- United States/MD
No way, there is no way I could handle all of it.
C'est Moi
Dishin' it out.
- Location
- Houston Y'all
Nope.
moviequeen1
SF VIP
- Location
- Buffalo,NY
Not a chance
A couple months ago I read astronaut Scott Kelly's book"Endurance: My Year in Space' which I recommend.I was amazed by what he went thru just to become an astronaut,his time on the international space station
A couple months ago I read astronaut Scott Kelly's book"Endurance: My Year in Space' which I recommend.I was amazed by what he went thru just to become an astronaut,his time on the international space station
RadishRose
SF VIP
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
I'd like to try a ride in a fighter jet but an astronaut; no.
Aunt Bea
SF VIP
- Location
- Near Mount Pilot
No thanks!
treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
- Location
- Austin, TX.
This tune moved me to tears, as a kid. I just read the lyrics, and got the chills. It's from Pearls Before Swine. I believe it was the inspiration for Taupin's Rocket Man
My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
We must not look upon that star again
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels were the stars
And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him inside.
I might want to venture into outer space, but not as things are today. Give me the starship Enterprise or the Orville, and I'm gone!
My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
We must not look upon that star again
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels were the stars
And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him inside.
I might want to venture into outer space, but not as things are today. Give me the starship Enterprise or the Orville, and I'm gone!
jujube
SF VIP
I don't think I have it in me to be an astronaut (besides being too old and too fat) but I'd sure like to ride on the "Vomit Comet".....the airplane that goes waaaay up and then dives steeply long enough for you to feel weightlessness and float around like you were in space. That I could do! Can't afford it, but it's on my bucket list, way down to be honest, but on the list nonetheless.
Furryanimal
Y gath o Gymru
- Location
- Wales
Only if they build Star Trek style spaceships.
Butterfly
SF VIP
- Location
- Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
No, I definitely would not.
fuzzybuddy
SF VIP
- Location
- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
Assuming that I was somehow made physically fit enough to fly, OH. YES. I'd love to be sitting there atop a rocket. It might be scary taking off, but the sheer joy must be great.
CeeCee
Well-known Member
- Location
- Monterey Peninsula California
I don’t have what it takes physically but mentally I think I could handle it...of course only if I didn’t leave behind my family...so, maybe not then.