"Flight Of The Orange Astronauts" lyrics
[Commander David Scott, Apollo 15 mission, 31 July 1971]
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature: Man must explore
Getting an extraordinary television picture here
Well, in my left hand I have a feather; in my right hand a hammer. And I guess one of the reasons we got here today was because of the gentleman named Galileo a long time ago, who made a rather significant discovery about falling objects in gravity fields; and we thought that - where would be a better place to confirm his findings than on the Moon? And, so, we thought we'd try it here for you. And I'll drop the two of them here and, hopefully, they'll hit the ground at the same time
How about that? Mr. Galileo was correct
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature: Man must explore
Getting an extraordinary television picture here
Well, in my left hand I have a feather; in my right hand a hammer. And I guess one of the reasons we got here today was because of the gentleman named Galileo a long time ago, who made a rather significant discovery about falling objects in gravity fields; and we thought that - where would be a better place to confirm his findings than on the Moon? And, so, we thought we'd try it here for you. And I'll drop the two of them here and, hopefully, they'll hit the ground at the same time
How about that? Mr. Galileo was correct
