First British Astronaut
 

Good luck to him! (Or her!)

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | British astronaut to be announced

1. Should have been me :{
2. Should have been 45 years ago at least! :oh:

I would have thought that the first Brits in orbit were those military personnel who had just read PR09.

There was me thinking it was Helen Sharman back in 1991....

So why have the AAC got the monopoly on this (Kevlar donned for incoming)........Tim Mace was runner up to Helen Sharman in the first cosmonaut batch and now we find another AAC member up for it, and why are they all called Timothy. Come on light blue, pull your fingers out. Maybe it's due to manning levels :ugh:

Anyway good luck to the chap......Per Ardua Ad Astra

from the pprune archive you can see the RAF did have an earlier candidate but trg was curtailed after the Challenger disaster.

http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-39044.html

Orac,
There's also Michael Foale who holds the record for the longest time in space by a Briton.

Congratulations Tim!!

Referring to that RAF pilot in the 80s who would have gone up in space, i also recall in 87 or 88, there was a trio of officers, one was a Signals Major who went around schools (one of them was my prep school in Cambs) to talk about their training at KSC for a shuttle mission to support Skynet, up to the point of the Challenger crash.

Were there any Crabs in the looser slots?

Well done and all the best.

Well done to both Tim and the AAC.

This is tangible proof that the AAC has come a long way in recent years.

Good Luck.

So, is he going to sit in the front seat or the back seat? :}

Congrats to TP the tp!

Knew him at Boscombe, top bloke.

sw

Congratulations Tim, well done ESA, great choice.

Jeep

or...

Tangible proof that teenie weenies are space cadets from another planet?
:E

Timbo congratulations, fantastic news fella.
:ok:

Does that make it a three tier Air Corps now?
;)

Congrats, very envious.

But is there a Ginger conspiricy to take all of the dream jobs? First the arrows and now space. What next, Chris Evans to replace Clarkson on Top Gear?

Nice to have a British astronaut, but I seem to recall photos showing that Helen Sharman & Michael Foale flew with the Stars and Stripes on their suits rather than the Union Flag - apologies if recalled incorrectly...

P6D

Because they are selected on merit......:hmm:

P6D

Helen Sharman flew with a totally different patch on her shoulder!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x-Stm12pat.jpg

Yes because in the RAF aircrew get in because their daddy was in the wegiment. I see your "smilie" and raise it! :hmm::hmm:

Edited to add - PR09 out? Where can I get the info?

One pace forward all those who are Astronauts and in the RAF? Stand still crab.... :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: