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SPACE ODDITY
Released as a single, the song with words and music by David Bowie is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who becomes lost in outer space. It appears on the album of the same title and was supposedly rush-released to coincide with the Apollo Eleven moon landing. The BBC featured the award-winning song, performed by David Bowie, in its television coverage of the lunar landing.
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Commencing countdown, engines on,
Check ignition and may God's love be with you!
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff!
This is Ground Control to Major Tom,
You've really made the grade;
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
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 circuit's 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 am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon;
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
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LOST IN SPACE is a science fiction TV series, a space-age tragi-comedy adaptation of the classic adventure novel Swiss Family Robinson. It followed the "tomorrow" (ooh, wow!) adventures of an astronaut family known as the Robinsons.
Thoroughgoing professor John Robinson (Guy Williams), his devout wife and mommy of the family, Maureen (June Lockhart), their young children, Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright), Will (Billy Mumy) and their fortitudinous friend and pilot, Major Don West (Mark Goddard) are chosen to travel on a vehicle named "Jupiter Two" to Alpha Centauri to look for a livable planet community.
Their mission is sabotaged by the unforthcoming hothead, Doctor Smith (Jonathan Harris). The wrongdoing nonconformist slips aboard their spaceship before the launch and re-jiggles and jams the robot's computer (ooh, wow!) to decimate the ship and group shortly after leaving earth.
Unexpectedly, the crummy dummy is trapped onboard and, to avoid being killed along with everyone else, he revives the crew who were placed in suspended animation (ooh, wow!) for the long commute, um, journey.
Forgoing doom, they manage to outgun the oncoming monotonic automaton ... oh, robot; but damage to the unmoored junk's guidance engineering system (ooh, wow!) leaves them lost in space. Incommunicado, they are forced to land on unwooded alien territory; and they eventually travel to other uncommon, gloomy worlds in their unfortunate attempts to reach their ultimate destination: Asia!
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