Artist: David Bowie Album: Space Oddity Song: Space Oddity Year: 1969 Top Chart Position: unknown

Ground Control to Major Tom, Ground Control to Major Tom, Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Ten Ground Control to Major Tom Nine,Eight,Seven Commencing countdown, engines on Six,Five Four Check igition and may God's love be with you Three,Two,One Liftoff This is Ground Control to Major Tom, You've really made the grade And the papers want to know who shot you where Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare. "This is Major Tom to Ground Control" I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today. For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world, Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do. Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still, And I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much she knows." Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuits dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you... "Here I am floating round my tin can, Far above the Moon, Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do.

A Space Oddity is a song written by David Bowie in order to poke fun at the American space program. His character of Major Tom, who is apparently a celebrity back on Earth, is launched a hundred thousand miles from home in his "tin can" of a space capsule. Due to a malfunction in his capsule, which is a breakdown in technology, Major Tom dies in space. While this does not directly express an view on technology, it does show that betting one’s life on a new and untested technology is generally not a good idea.