- Mars
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020