B is for Blastoff a powerful thing When those engines are fired it'll make your ears There is smoke _ and vibration as we launch into And we do it with flair with excitement and
The launch of the space shuttle was an amazing sight to see The shuttle powered by two solid rocket motors and three space shuttle main engines generated nearly 7 million pounds of thrust at liftoff The shuttle stack the shuttle its boosters and orange fuel tank traveled at more than 120 miles an hour by the time it cleared the launch pad The blastoff is simply a well controlled explosion Just six minutes after liftoff the shuttle is moving so fast that every thing on board will weigh nearly three times more than it did on Earth Then 2 5 minutes later when the main engines cut off everything will be floating Welcome to outer space Please enjoy the view ears ring into space grace
The Capsule's important and it starts with a C It's a tiny compartment much too crowded for me Our heroes will live there through all of their flight They'll eat sleep and work in a space that's quite tight
Early space capsules were very small and compact The Mercury program capsule could carry a single astronaut and Alan Shepard was the first American to launch into space Later Project Gemini's capsule took two astronauts For the Apollo moon missions the capsule was large enough for three space fliers and the space shuttles could carry a crew of seven Today NASA hopes to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars To do that they are building a huge rocket called the Space Launch System SLS and a space capsule called the Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle Orion shaped like a big gumdrop is designed to carry a crew of two to six astronauts to space
