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Top Ten Tenuous Links Countdown to Astronaut Tim Peake's Launch
News Story from 14th Dec 2015
SRP’s Top Ten Tenuous links countdown to Tim Peake’s launch into space:
10.For that Christmassy feeling, A Place Called Space Advent Calendar. Tim will be in space this Christmas.
9.SRP member Greg Antill’s (Nuvia) birthday is on 15th December which is the launch date for Tim Peake.
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SRP member Jennifer Humphries (Sellafield) has told us one of her safety adviser team is going to Sandhurst in July next year for Army Reserve Officer Training - which is where Tim Peake trained before he served as a platoon Commander with the Royal Green Jackets.
7.Lynn Cooper, SRP member (Studsvik), wrote two reports for CoRWM in 2004 considering the cost and risk of disposing of radioactive waste into Space. Needless to say, this option didn’t make it onto the shortlist, but the Committee really did assess all possible options.
6. Catrin Ferioli, SRP member from Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, went to Chichester High School for Girls which is right next to the boys’ school that Tim Peake attended. They both grew up in the same village of Westbourne too.
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5. SRP member Bob Kerr with his expedition to Mount Everest in 2013 is the SRP member who’s made the closest radiation dose rate measurements to space whilst still keeping his feet on Earth.
4. Neil Davis, SRP member from East and North Herts NHS Trust, grew up in Sandhurst and while he didn't spend much time in the nearby Royal Military Academy, he did go on annual visits there with the local Cub Scout pack. The first of these would have been in 1991, so as Tim Peake graduated in 1992, it's entirely possible they were on the site at the same time!
3.SRP President, Pete Cole, was a post-graduate student in Manchester in 1989 when NASA advertised for a British astronaut recruit to do some experiments on the International Space Station. He applied by filling out a massive application form and was subsequently turned down. Helen Sharman was chosen.
2.Tessa Harris, from Harris Associates, had her picture taken with the UK’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman, in 1996. This was at the 100th CENTEC Investor in People Celebration lunch - an event that Tessa organised at The Langham Hilton in London at which Helen was the guest speaker. Tessa now of course knows that it could have been Pete in the picture if he’d been selected to be the British astronaut! Helen is far left and Tessa is far right and make sure you spot the rocket ice sculpture in the background.
1.In 1996 George Sallit, SRP Member and former President, discovered an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. After its discovery and its 'rediscovery' after one orbit he was able to name it and did so calling it after his wife, Jennifer Sallit.
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