Destroy the dying sun -- Virgil Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee

53 years ago, these people died for the advancement of all of humanity:



A decade-and-a-half(ish) ago, a band wrote a song about them.  The band is Baboon.  The song is '12 seconds'.  It is respectful, and fucking rocks your knickers off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_chTZ1uRLI

Mission on, the tension it drowns us.
Our breath is short, the capsule surrounds us.
Countdown on, we stretch for the stars
And see the dark, or light, whichever awaits us.

Open up! 0012 Seconds and Counting.
Open up! As the fire surrounds me.
Open up! Well, freedom has found me...
Mission on, the spark and the wire
Sucks the life from the heart of the fire.
No air to breathe, no scene to see,
But there's light, and there's power,
And the power surrounds me...

Open up! 0012 Seconds and Counting.
Open up! As the fire surrounds me.
Open up! Well, freedom has found me...

God! Help! This is White! This is White!
Open 'er up, open 'er up!  Fire! Fire!
God! Help! This is White! Open 'er up, open 'er up,
Fire! Fire! Fi-re!

Destroy the dying sun...

Mission on, and the force of the fire
Grows the light of future desires.
Countdown on, we stretch for the stars
To see the dark, or light,
Whichever awaits us.

Open up! 0012 Seconds and Counting.
Open up! As the fire surrounds me.
Open up! Well, freedom has found me...

God! Help! He-elp!
This is White! This is White!
Open 'er up, open 'er up!
Help! Fire!
This is White! This is White! 
Open 'er up, open 'er up!

Fire! Fire! Fi-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-re!

De-stroy the dying Sun,
Lay down belo-o-o-ow.
De-stroy the dying Sun,
Lay down belo-o-o-o-o-ow.

Darkness comes,
I'm dying slow.
I only want to ever
come back
to her.