British Astronaut
bianchimoon
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Just watching pics from pre launch inside capsule. WTF can't the get a decent image and one that doesn't drop the signal when on earth, it's a digital age, looks like its been played from a [email protected] 8mm cine film 
All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....
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Hi, what do you do?
I'm an astronaut.
Soooooooooooooooooo cool.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Aye he's a very lucky, but also humble man, seems a really nice guy, best of luck to him
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
this is why you watch the NASA tv or ESA direct feeds instead, no inane presenter babbling,full mission comms & people who know what they are talking about.
technically anyone who has flown above the Karman line, 62 miles/100km, is classed as an astronaut
Wouldn't be too sure about that. The ISS orbits at an altitude of 400km, and they took 6 hours to get there in a spaceship capable of travelling at several thousand km/h. Sounds a bit like my wife was at the controls.
NASA TV rocked today - had it on all morning. Even para commando bloke I share an office with stopped whatever crazy stuff he was planning to eat from my big box of pain au raisin and gawp.
It rocked and I am soooooo jealous of him.
I reckon he's lying in his bed up there at the moment looking down on us just giggling to himself.
Sooooooooooo jealous.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
To me it's not just the fact that it's a Britiash astronaut but I'm mad, sad, bad ultra mad on all things space. It's just sooooo cool.
Just get really child like excited about anything like this.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Yes she was called Helen and visited the Mir station in 1991, but that wasn't backed by the government just British companies, Tim is the first to be back by the government £16,000,000 and yes would be so cool to go to space
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sharman
Lucky, lucky fit.
And when he gets home he can do anything he wants because all is he has to say is:"No. I'm not doing it. I'm an astronaut".
Or: "Yes, you will do that because I'm an astronaut and you're not".
On a serious note, if this gets one child away from XBox Killer shoot 'me and into science/space/aeronautics/whatever it's worth every bloody penny and calorie we have all wasted typing away last couple of days.
It's the most uplifting (no pun intended) thing Britain has done in decades.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
There was a lot riding on his success, not just the cost but the interest of a lot of youngsters. It would have been devastating for a lot of people had something gone wrong.
After the Challenger explosion in 1986, which carried "the first teacher in space", Christa McAuliffe, there were reports of kids in the USA needing councilling. I remember thinking at the time "typical Americans", but yesterday I could see the reasoning.
Good luck to the man, and I agree he's a very lucky chap.
(where it doesn't really matter, I put down my profession as Astronaut, like in my profile on here. I've always considered this my true calling, I just was never asked
The older I get, the better I was.
It was great to see the public caught up in the excitement of this mission. For me it was reminiscent of watching the Apollo missions and early Shuttle launches. I hope that in my time I will be able to see a return to the moon and the first mission to Mars.