[ WP ] Write a serious conversation between two people based off song lyrics

The spacecraft hummed with the noises of equipment and the low hiss of pressurized air. A single seat was in the cockpit, an astronaut strapped in with harness tight. His helmet rested on his chest as he lay facing the stars above the rocket. He calmed his breathing, ready for the command to initiate launch. The waiting was long and the pressurized fuel beneath him was poised ready to erupt and launch him into the sky. 
 
 `` Ground Control to Major Tom. Ground Control to Major Tom.'' 
 
 Astronaut Tom Rorsen snapped from his reverie. He reached an awkwardly gloved hand to the switch nearby and activated the radio. `` Major Tom, go ahead.'' 
 
 The radio buzzed for a moment with static before speaking once more. `` Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.'' 
 
 `` 10-4, Control.'' He felt for the small tinfoil package and ripped it open revealing two small, brown pills. He threw them to the back of his mouth and swallowed them down a dry throat. His helmet was heavy as he lifted it over his head and gave it a small twist, it hissed for a second as it pressurized with the suit. 
 
 `` Ground Control to Major Tom.'' The radio spoke once more, and the dash panel lit with numbers. 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 
 
 `` Commencing countdown. Engines on.'' The rocket began to rumble and vibrate beneath him. 5... 4... 3... 
 
 `` Check ignition, and may God's love be with you.'' 2... 1... 
 
 Sudden explosion sounded from below and the rocket rose from the Earth. Major Tom felt the pressure against his chest as he pushed against gravity. The lights of the panel clicked and lit in various order as boosters released and engines reignited. The altimeter continue to spin as the craft rose higher and higher into the atmosphere. 
 
 Then... the roar of the engine ceased. The click of the lights slowed, and the silence began to creep in. Major Tom's hands rose from his lap and floated in the zero gravity. Earth lay behind him, and eternity lay before him. The rocket quietly slid through space and the stars shined bright in the eyes of Major Tom. 
 
 The radio cackled to life with static. `` Ground Control to Major Tom.'' The voice sounded distant as if spoken from a tin can. 
 
 `` Go ahead, Ground Control.'' 
 
 `` Ground Control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade. The papers want to know whose shirt you wear.'' 
 
 Tom laughed and smiled. They'd done it. They'd really done it. `` Major Tom to Ground Control, you know it's all government issue.'' 
 
 The radio spoke once more. `` Tom, it's time to the leave the capsule. If you dare.'' 
 
 Major Tom looked to the circular hatches at the rear of the cockpit. Through the hatch window he could see the rounded horizon of earth and the total darkness showing beyond. He opened the first hatch and closed it behind him, only one piece of metal door separated him from the vacuum of space. He secured the tether to his harness and attached the air his to his pack. The hiss of oxygen greeted him and stabilized; there were no leaks. 
 
 He opened the hatch and eternity opened before him. He keyed his radio. 
 
 `` Major Tom to Ground Control. I'm stepping through the door. And I'm floating in a most peculiar way.'' His feet left the deck of the ship and he was slowly drifting away. Earth shone beneath him and he slowly rotated until his view showed the moon in the distance, closer than anyone had ever been before. Around him the stars shined brighter than anyone had ever seen. `` And the stars look very different today.'' 
 
 As he drifted he was suddenly struck with a deep sense of melancholy. He looked down upon the earth and all of its inhabitants busy with their lives, and he was all alone. 
 
 `` For here, am I sitting in my tin can. Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do.'' 
 
 He reeled back into the ship and sealed the hatch. He watched as the earth slowly receded from view as his vessel sped through the dark sky with amazing speed. He saw the moon slide into view beneath him. Soon, it too was receding behind as his vessel left earth orbit. 
 
 He calmed his breathing as he looked forward into the brilliant sky ablaze with distant stars. He keyed the radio and spoke once more. 
 
 `` Major Tom to Ground Control.'' There was mostly static, but Ground Control sounded from a distance. `` Go ahead, Tom.'' 
 
 `` Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still. And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.'' 
 
 The static sounded for a minute. `` Ground Control to Major Tom, we are working hard to get you back. Stay with us, Tom.'' 
 
 Major Tom keyed the radio and looked over his shoulder at the distant Earth. `` Tell my wife I love her very much.'' 
 
 `` She knows, Tom. She knows.'' 
 
 The ship slid on into the ocean of space, Tom at its useless controls staring into the face of eternity. 
 
 `` Ground Control to Major Tom. You're circuits dead, there's something wrong.'' 
 
 Only static. 
 
 `` Can you hear me, Major Tom?'' 
 `` Can you hear me, Major Tom?'' 
 `` Can you hear me, Major Tom?'' 
 `` Can you-'' 
 
 Major Tom smiled as the voice slid out of range, drowned in a sea of static. 
 
 `` Here am I floating in my tin can. Far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue.'' 
 
 He looked at the gauges of his panels and closed his eyes. 
 
 `` And there's nothing I can do.''
