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This will likely require an earlier POD, but what if the events of the "Major Tom" songs were real?

I'll use the two most popular versions:

1. The 1969 version by David Bowie

2. Peter Schilling's 1983 version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Tom

In both of them, an astronaut (who, based on the accents and for the purposes of this scenario, is British--hence the earlier POD) is lost in an orbital accident, although in the 1983 version, it seems that he survives somehow ("they don't realize/he's alive").
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