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  • Chris: Welcome to the cupola, ready to play a little music!

  • Ed: Indeed! Your scenery looks a little nicer than ours!

  • Have you got everything you need?

  • Do you have your trusty floating guitar pick with you?

  • Excellent. Mine is subject to gravity.

  • Yeah, I know, yours matches your mission patch.

  • Gleeks, are you guys ready to do this?

  • Gleeks: Yeah!!

  • Ed: Chris? Ready to go?

  • Chris: Yes Ed, I'm ready.

  • Ed: Okay!

  • Chris: Let's do this!

  • Ed: Let's do it.

  • folk-pop music

  • Ed (singing): On solid fuel and wires

  • Turn the key and the light the fires.

  • Were leaving Earth today

  • This rocket's burning bright,

  • Well soon be out of sight,

  • And orbiting in space.

  • Ed and Chris: Pushed back in my seat,

  • Look out my window.

  • There goes home.

  • That ball of shiny blue

  • houses everybody anybody ever knew.

  • All together: So sing your song, I’m listening

  • Out where stars are glistening

  • I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

  • If you could see our nation

  • from the International Space Station

  • You’d know why I want to get back soon.

  • Gleeks: Get back soon...

  • Chris: Eighteen thousand miles an hour

  • Fueled by science and solar power

  • The oceans racing past...

  • At half a thousand tons

  • Ninety minutes moon to sun

  • A bullet can’t go half this fast

  • Ed and Chris: Floating from my seat

  • Look out my window

  • There goes home

  • Gleeks: There goes home...

  • Ed and Chris: That brilliant ball of blue

  • All together: Is where I’m from, and also where I’m going to...

  • So sing your song, I’m listening

  • Out where stars are glistening

  • I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

  • If you could see our Nation

  • from the International Space Station

  • Chris: You’d know why I want to get back soon

  • Gleeks: Get back soon...

  • Ed: All back and white just fades to grey

  • Where the sun rises sixteen times a day

  • Chris: You can’t make out borders from up here

  • Just a spinning ball within a tiny atmosphere

  • Gleeks: Atmosphere...

  • Ed and Chris: Pushed back in my seat

  • Look out my window

  • Here comes home

  • Gleeks: Ho-oooh-home....

  • Ed and Chris: What once was fueled by fear

  • All together: Now has fifteen nations orbiting together here.

  • So sing your song, I’m listening

  • Out where stars are glistening

  • I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

  • If you could see our nation

  • from the International Space Station

  • You’d know why I want to get back soon

  • Gleeks: Get back soon...

  • Ed: You’d know why I want to get back soon

  • Gleeks: Getting back to you

  • Chris: You’d know why I want to get back soon

  • Gleeks: Getting back to you

  • Ed: You’d know why I want to get back soon

  • Gleeks: Getting back to you

  • Chris: You’d know why I want to get back soon

Chris: Welcome to the cupola, ready to play a little music!

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