SPACE FLIGHT
I have been interested in space flight since I was 7 years old.
I am very honoured to be a "Fellow Of The British Interplanetary Society"
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I am proud to have met all the crew members of Apollo 9
Significant to me as they were in earth orbit on the day I was born - 7th March 1969
Below are just a few the people I have met
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Dave Scott
Gemini 8, Apollo 9 & 15
(7th Man On The Moon)
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James McDivitt
Gemini 4 & Apollo 9
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Paolo Nespoli
ESA ASTRONAUT
Paolo launched into space on STS-120 on October 23rd 2007 to the ISS
Paolo in Orbit - Image Credits: NASA & ESA
Paolo landed on 7th november 2007 having travelled 6.2 million miles
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Gemini 9, Apollo 10 & 17
(11th man to walk on the moon & Last Man On The Moon's surface - So Far)
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Alan Bean A
First Artist on the moon
Apollo 12 & Skylab 2
4th Man On The Moon
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STS - 51D, STS - 35, STS - 46, STS - 61 (Hubble Repair Mission # 1) & STS - 75
Jeff and I were Co Lecturers for 6 days to an international audience. Jeff is professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics at MIT.
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Anousheh Ansari
The First Female Space Tourist Soyuz TMA-9
Anousheh was giving a lecture at UCL to the British Interplanetary Society in London
My Picture flew on Anousheh's Soyuz TMA-9 to the ISS
She is such a wonderful, inspiring& enthusiastic person - Thank You for your time Anousheh!
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Mark Shuttleworth
The First African in Space
Mark was the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space - a really nice guy
Soyuz TM-33
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Scott Carpenter - I've met Scott on 3 occasions
A True American hero! One of the Original Mercury - 7 Astronauts - Scott Carpenter
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Russell "Rusty" Schweickart
Russell "Rusty" Schweickart
- Apollo 9 - in Earth Orbit on the day I was born in 1969!
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin - Gemini 12 + Apollo 11 - The First Moon Landing 2nd Man on the moon
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Richard "Dick" Gordon
Richard "Dick" Gordon - Gemini 11 + Apollo 12
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Alfred Worden - -I've met Al on 2 occasions
Alfred Worden - Apollo
15
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Charlie Duke
Charlie Duke - Apollo 16 & 10th Man on the Moon
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Jack Lousma
Jack Lousma - Skylab 2 + STS-3
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Aleksei Leonov
Aleksei Leonov - Voskhod 2 - The First man To Walk in Space (EVA) + Soyuz 19 (ASTP)
I've met Aleksei twice, here is the latest picture of us together in 2008
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Valery Kubasov
Valery Kubasov - Soyuz 6 + Soyuz 19 (ASTP) + Soyuz 36
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Yuri Onufriyenko
Yuri Onufriyenko - Soyuz -TM23 + ISS-4 + STS108 / STS111
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Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Romanenko - Soyuz 26 & Soyuz 38 & Soyuz TM-2
Yuri has logged over 430 days in space!
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Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Vladimir Dzhanibekov - Soyuz 27 + Soyuz 39 + Soyuz T-6 + Soyuz T-12 + Soyuz T-13
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Brian Binnie
William Brian Binnie - Test Pilot at Scaled Composites, LLC; made the historic flight of Space Ship One to win the X-prize.
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THE LADIES OF THE ASF
LIN LE BLANC (right) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ASTRONAUT SCOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
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BRITONS FIRST SPACE TRAVELLER HELEN SHARMAN - OBE
(Soyuz TM-12)
CLICK THE IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HELEN
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Others include:
Astronomer Royal's Sir Arnold Wolfendale & Sir Martin Reece
Professor John Zarneki, Heather Couper, Nigel Henbest, Professor David Hughes, Professor Antony Hewish
Plus others too many to mention
CONTACT:
Mr Andrew Green 0774 -7484975
EMAIL: ARG@FREENET.CO.UK
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