Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven) Commencing countdown, engines on (six, five, four, three) Check ignition, and may God's love be with you (two, one, lift off) 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 the 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
Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven) Commencing countdown, engines on (six, five, four, three) Check ignition, and may God's love be with you (two, one, lift off) 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 the 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
A música foi gravada no Trident Studios, em Londres, com o produtor Gus Dudgeon, em um ambiente que já havia sido palco de gravações icônicas.
Foi lançada como single em 11 de julho de 1969, aproveitando a cobertura da missão Apollo 11, e chegou a tocar como música de fundo na cobertura da BBC do pouso lunar.
Apesar de um início de vendas fraco, o single alcançou o número cinco na parada britânica, tornando-se o primeiro e único hit de Bowie nos charts britânicos por três anos.
A reedição pela RCA em 1972 tornou "Space Oddity" a primeira música de Bowie a atingir a faixa de sucesso nos Estados Unidos.
Em 2013, o astronauta canadense Chris Hadfield gravou um cover da música, incluindo o primeiro videoclipe filmado no espaço, que rapidamente se tornou viral.
Em 2019, o produtor Tony Visconti remixou a gravação original para celebrar o 50.º aniversário, acompanhada de um novo videoclipe dirigido por Tim Pope.
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