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News Spacewalking Brit drops in to wow students MIKE Foale, the first Briton to walk in space, held students spellbound when he visited Merchants’ Academy, Withywood. He told the audience of Year 7 and 8 students how he wanted to be an astronaut from the age of six. He was finally selected by NASA at the age of 30 and went on to take part in six space
shuttle missions, including extended missions to Mir and the International Space Station. His career highlights included repairing the Bristol-built Hubble space telescope and helping to rescue the Russian space station. Wearing a blue flight jacket, Mike told the students how he had been inspired by his RAF pilot father,
by watching films such as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and by reading science fiction. As a child, he visited the US space centre. He watched the historic 1969 moon landings on television and dreamed of following in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. “My parents didn’t really think I could ever become an
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