A year or so ago McDonalds came out with a commercial featuring a little ditty about “Spaceman Stu” and illustrated it with an animated kid wearing a very 1950’s space helmet. I always figured it was just a little short jingle written for McDonalds. But as it turns out, it’s actually a full song (written for McDonalds):
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Reason why I’m blathering about it: partially because it’s a fairly entertaining song, but mostly because it’s a song about a child fantasizing about space… and it’s POSITIVE! Let’s face it, how many songs about space penetrate even this far into popular culture, and aren’t negative or outright depressing as hell? Both versions of “Major Tom,” “Rocket Man,” “Silent Satellite” and others tend to either paint manned spaceflight as disease and danger wrapped in darkness and screaming… or some horrible waste of resources. I’ve not heard too many that celebrate even a childlike fascination with the wonders of space.
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I know it’s commie stuff, but I like the Suprise! song on Youtube myself,
why I don’t know,no I am not a commie but I have had an interest in
their aerospace stuff in the last couple of years and the other song which
was titled “Sputnik (the song)” also on Youtube is about the Corona
Project that we did here in the U.S.
I also thought it was whimsical. I’m hoping that, as older politicians who thought of space as cold war military waste pass away, folks will replace Ms. Giffords in DC