What Ever Happened To Eagle I ?
Five astronauts on a historical missionTo travel further into the Milky Way
Yes sir, indeed, a very brave thing
All goes well for the men at first
Colonel Lafferty, Major Rossi
Captain Ardrey, Lieutenant Howell
And lastly of course, Lieutenant Smithers
Yes sir, all goes well
Passing our moon, and the gas giants
Then on to Uranus and Neptune
And finally moving out past Pluto
Then into the Kyber belt and beyond
Well into outer space they go
Leaving our solar system far behind
Then something unexpected happened
A wormhole hurls them to a distant system
Killing all aboard most horribly
The ship then orbits a strange dark planet
Apparently like Pluto, a dwarf planet
Farthest from its sun
Many light years from Earth or the Milky Way
A whole new galaxy in fact
Then something extraordinary happened
The natives of this planet have special abilities
To heal and even bring back the dead
So they brought the astronauts back to life
But not quite to their normal selves
Then they sent them back to Earth
As it turned out, on a twofold trip
The first part to warn the inhabitants of Earth
Against any more such explorations
Secondly, a new mysterious secret mission
To set up a beacon at the direct center of the Earth
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