Saturday, 8 November 2008

It's Astronaut Season

Another month, another astronaut! This time it's ESA's Jean-Pierre Haigneré who will be at the Victoria and Albert Museum along with SF author Alistair Reynolds on Friday December 5 for an event called Space Frontiers, part of the V&A's Utopia to Outer Space: Cold War Weekend event (tickets £8).

Haignere flew to the Mir space station twice in the 1990s (hence he is wearing a Russian Sokol spacesuit in the pic). Reynolds is an great guy who writes excellent hard (i.e. technological) SF and who used to work for ESA as an astrophysicist.

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