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Major Tom (völlig losgelöst) is een nummer van de Duitse zanger Peter Schilling. Het verscheen op zijn album Fehler im System uit 1982. In november dat jaar werd het nummer eerst in de Duitstalige landen (Duitsland, Oostenrijk, Zwitserland) uitgebracht als de eerste single van het album. Op 12 maart 1983 volgden Nederland en België en op 24 maart de rest van Europa, Australië, Nieuw-Zeeland, Zuid-Afrika, de VS en Canada. In 1990 werd het nummer op cd-single uitgebracht.

"Major Tom (Coming Home)" (German: Major Tom [völlig losgelöst], 'Major Tom [completely detached]') is a new wave song written and sung by German musician Peter Schilling, released as the lead single from his album Error in the System. Featuring the story of a character unofficially related to "Major Tom", an astronaut depicted in British musician David Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity" and other releases, Schilling's track describes a protagonist who leaves Earth and begins drifting out into outer space as radio contact breaks off with his ground control team. His fate is left ambiguous as the song ends.

The song is one of multiple singles by various artists with a pop music related style influenced by the cultural roboticism associated with Berlin, Germany. It is specifically a part of the "Neue Deutsche Welle" (NDW), a social movement in the arts within German society, and is one of its pieces that crossed over into the popular culture of other nations. Versions in both the English language and in Schilling's native German have earned critical and commercial acclaim over multiple decades.