That's a lovely postscript, the Newton connection, I mean.
I'd assumed he had already been in space and was on his post-flight world tour so I suppose the Foundry Union thing is even stranger though propaganda worked in weird ways back then, I suppose.
I worked in Traffic so stooped many a time in that cockpit to nervously present a heavy loadsheet but let's say, I also sat in that r/h seat on the way back from freight runs. No further comment!