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Music by Kellee McQuinn and Keith DavisLyrics by Kellee McQuinnMOON DANCEHANNAH: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."Itʼs a marvelous night for a moondanceSo letʼs moonwalk the night awayInviting all of the lunaticsTo come on, come out and playWeʼre the moons and we like to orbitStaying loyal to our planetWe go round and round and round itSo much love we can hardly stand itSome like to call us satellitesThereʼre hundreds of us in the skyMore moons discovered every dayLighting up the darkest nightsWeʼve all got one thing in commonThat weʼre totally uniqueSome are huge and some are tinySome are spheres and some are freaksSome of us are icySome are dust and rock and stoneSome of us have really cool namesAnd some of us are unknownThe most famous moon of allIs anything but smallSheʼs the 2 nd brightest body in the skySheʼs the Earthʼs best friend and trusted allyShe goes simply by the name MoonDepending on what language you speakMan has walked upon herSheʼs a chic antiqueIʼve got no atmosphere to speak ofNo sound or wind or airThe footprints that Armstrong left on me

Are actually still thereIʼve got 1/6 of Earthʼs gravityAnd Iʼm a quarter of her sizeI might be a bit less powerfulBut I control her oceansʼ tidesIʼm egg-shaped and have moonquakesI attract lots of solar windGot craters, mountains and iceYeah, Iʼm pretty thick skinned.People only see one side of meItʼs my smiling happy faceBut what most of them donʼt know isThat Iʼm moving further away in space – in space.Weʼre all stuck in our planetsʼ gravityThey adopted us long agoWe feel a devoted harmonyStaying close to our happy homeSo itʼs a marvelous night for a moondanceSo letʼs moonwalk the night awayInviting all of the lunaticsTo come on, come out and playSpace out.©2010 NASA/JPL