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okay you want to take me with this no I

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oh that's fantastic when I'm tweeting

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right now with Reid Wiseman who is up in

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the space station looking at us right

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now

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he's up there looking at Florida he sent

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a picture of Florida right now from the

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space station said he that they don't

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usually like leaks at the launch pad I

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think this one's okay though I'm not no

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one's in danger except maybe my career

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with my record label at this point for

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I'm retweeting so here's what I wrote

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thanks for the amazing view

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Astro read I hope you love the song

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hashtag leaking moonshine texting some

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tweeting somebody in outer space right

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now I'm sure someday they'll be like

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yeah duh if we do that all the time but

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that that's got to be it's a first for

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me I don't know how many people have

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done that can't be that many of course

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he's pretty prolific on here so maybe

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it's not that much of an accomplishment

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I'm leaking each song at a time on my

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own sort of going rogue and deciding to

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present each song in some form to my

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fans that signifies what the song is

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about

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in this case with with American flag on

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the moon we reached out to NASA who was

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who has been just fantastic about it and

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just said what could we do and they said

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why don't you go down on the launch pad

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my five-year-old walked out and on the

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porch one night he'd heard about the

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lunar landing and he he was standing

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there like this for the longest time

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looking at the moon and he said I think

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I can see the flag which cracked me up

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that resonated sort of metaphorically

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with the hopeful viewpoint of a

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five-year-old it kind of reminded me of

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how far we've come as a country and also

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what we can accomplish when we set a

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goal in mind like something is

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impossible as landing on the moon and

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coming back safely

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I think this was the hardest song to

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write on the record because there's

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really two stories going on there's the

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story of what's happening now which is

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more of what the first verse is about

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and the story of my little boy walking

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out and seeing this and and having that

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sort of wonderfully naive view point

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which naive is it may be a questionable

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term maybe he's the one with the right

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friend of mine as opposed to the rest of

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us who were so jaded living in modern

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this is a song the American flag on the

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moon is not a song about looking back

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it's a song about really about the

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future and you know when NASA heard this

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I think they felt like it epitomizes

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their goals which you know one of the

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things that I keep hearing them say is

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next stop Mars and it's sort of like why

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setting a goal something that large that

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seemingly insurmountable sometimes can

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propel us way further than we ever

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imagined I'm totally on board with

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anything they want to do with this song

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because that's why it's written it's

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written as a as a testament to what we

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that's way big deal I've been a space

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geek my whole life and you know it's

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truly it's truly an honor to be here and

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anything I can do to help further NASA

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and space exploration I'm I'm all for it

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I think it's it's one of our best hopes

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we're basically standing and one of the

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most important places on our on our

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continent in my opinion it's something

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that this changed the world this is

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still in my opinion that the moon

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landing is the greatest achievement of

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if you get a chance come down here come

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to Kennedy Space Center because it's

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unbeliev it's awe-inspiring you realize

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there's just no greater representation