Một bài hát rất tuyệt vời ca ngợi lịch sử chinh phục vũ trụ của loài người. Từ khi Prometheus mang lửa của thiên đình xuống cho loài người đến khi Gagarin trở thành người đầu tiên bay lên vũ trụ, như ước mơ ngày nào của cậu bé Icarus giang cánh lên bầu trời. Rồi Apollo chứng minh rằng “we can do it if we try” với việc đưa con người lên Mặt Trăng.

Quá trình chinh phục khoảng không cứ diễn ra, với những thành công rực rỡ và cả những tai nạn mà “the world could only cry” như hai tai nạn tàu con thoi Challenger và Columbia. Nhưng trên tất cả, loài người vẫn luôn hướng tới tương lai, mọi con chim đều cần học để bay ( Every bird must learn to fly), chúng ta vẫn đang tiến bước tới những vì sao.

(Đặng Vũ Tuấn Sơn – Thienvanvietnam.org)

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Fire in the sky

Prometheus, they say, brought God’s fire down to man.
And we’ve caught it, tamed it, trained it since our history began.
Now we’re going back to heaven just to look him in the eye,
and there’s a thunder ‘cross the land, and a fire in the sky.

Gagarin was the first, back in nineteen sixty-one,
When like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the sun.
And he knew he might not make it, for it’s never hard to die.
But he lifted off the pad and rode a fire in the sky.

Yet a higher goal was calling, and we vowed we’d reach it soon.
And we gave ourselves a decade to put fire on the moon.
And Apollo told the world, we can do it if we try:
And there was one small step, and a fire in the sky.

I dreamed last night of a little boy’s first spaceflight,
Turned into me, watching a black and white TV.
There was a fire in the sky, I’ll remember until I die.
A fire in the sky…a fire in the sky!

Then two decades from Gagarin, twenty years to the day.
Came a shuttle named Columbia, to open up the way.
And they said she’s just a truck, but she’s a truck that’s aiming high.
See her big jets burning, see her fire in the sky.

Yet the Gods do not give lightly of the powers they have made.
And with Challenger and seven, once again the price is paid.
Though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could only cry.
As they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky.

Now, the rest is up to us, and there’s a future to be won.
We must turn our faces outward, we will do what must be done.
For no cradle lasts forever, every bird must learn to fly —
And we’re going to the stars, see our fire in the sky.

Yes, we’re going to the stars, see our fire in the sky!
There’s a fire in the sky, I’ll remember until I die.
A fire in the sky, a fire in the sky!