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.
We’re leaving Earth today
This rocket's burning bright,
We’ll 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