Instructional Approach. Curriculum integration is taking hold in a wide. variety of high school settings. In career-focused. pathways, new small high schools, career academies, and even large traditional high schools, teachers are. integrating academic and technical instruction by. focusing on career-related themes.
Major Tom is a fictional astronaut referenced in David Bowie's songs Space Oddity, Ashes to Ashes, Hallo Spaceboy (particularly in the remix by the Pet Shop Boys) and possibly Blackstar (in the music video and interpreted from the lyrics).
Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it.