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I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

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I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

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The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

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Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

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You can do more science on the ground than you can in space for the same amount of money. But there is some science you can not do on the ground.

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It's very exciting that people could actually live on another planet.

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I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

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While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

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During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.

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As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: May 30th, 1963

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