STS-124 crew visit to Bradford and Norwich, England - Sept, 08

[Chris Bergin]

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/display.var.2434749.0.spacemen_to_land_in_keighley.php

Also see Robert's post below...

[collectSPACE]

Sep 8 in Norfolk:
http://www.norfolk-exchange.org.uk/articles/20080801

Sep 11 in Bradford:
http://www.bmedia.org.uk/index.cfm?pid=80&eventID=1279

United Kingdom astronaut/cosmonaut Sightings:
http://www.collectspace.com/sightings/sightings-unitedkingdom.html

[paulbacon]

Nice one, Bradford not too far form where i live

[Chris Bergin]

Might be worth a train ride into the People's Republic of Bradford. I'll phone up tomorrow and see how many places are remaining.

Changed the title (Keighley is pretty much Bradford/Huddersfield). We've got a fair few Yorkshire/Northerners on here, so let's see who's up for this.

[Chris Bergin]

And on the off chance there's someone from Bradford here....can you get to Bradford Interchange from Leeds Station? Easy walking distance if so

[Ford Mustang]

Might be worth a train ride into the People's Republic of Bradford. I'll phone up tomorrow and see how many places are remaining.

Changed the title (Keighley is pretty much Bradford/Huddersfield). We've got a fair few Yorkshire/Northerners on here, so let's see who's up for this.

Might? 

Mike Lopez-Alegria came to my town, and it was incredible.  He talked about the aspects of his Shuttle launch, Soyuz launch, and Long Duration Flight aboard the ISS.  You should definitely go if you get the chance!

[paulbacon]

And on the off chance there's someone from Bradford here....can you get to Bradford Interchange from Leeds Station? Easy walking distance if so

yeah its under 30 mins on the train, and they run frequently. Where do you live Chris?

[Chris Bergin]

And on the off chance there's someone from Bradford here....can you get to Bradford Interchange from Leeds Station? Easy walking distance if so

yeah its under 30 mins on the train, and they run frequently. Where do you live Chris?

York - the place with the big church

[paulbacon]

Went to York a long long time ago. Hear alot of good things about the place tho

[Tourmaline]

Phoned up and booked my place!  It's going to be a bit of a lengthy train ride from the Midlands but definitely worth it!   

[paulbacon]

Im going too

[ShuttleDiscovery]

What a shame I'm back at school!

I probably wouldn't have been able to get there anyway as both places are about the same distance apart from me (I live in Rugby, so it would take me a while just to get there!)

Never mind...

[spaceamillion]

Thanks for the heads -up on this,

I will try to get a place.

Here's crossing my fingers !!

[spaceamillion]

Some pictures from the Bradford event.

Mike Fossum and Akihiko Hoshide were at Bradford University on a separate event.

They arrived at Bradford College after an event with 5000 kids at Odsal stadium !!

Thanks to all concerned, and NSF for the heads up !!!

[paulbacon]

When did you take the last picture? Before or after they had done the talk? Was a great presentation

[spaceamillion]

That was afterwards.

They had some form of presentation in the car park. Didn't last long though....

[Tourmaline]

I was there too!  I got all their autographs, definitely worth travelling four hours and three trains in each direction.  I was sorry not to meet Aki Hoshide and Mike Fossum, but I was (and still am) so happy to meet the rest of the crew.

Some of my pics (click on the links):

Mark Kelly

Ken Ham, Ron Garan & Karen Nyberg

Ken Ham, Ron Garan, Karen Nyberg, Mark Kelly

Crewmembers outside Bradford College

All the way home I looked like this smiley here

[von Dawsons Express]

Hi Folks,
New on Site, I like what I have seen.

Went to Bradford College Thursday, met Neville K and Rob W. Had a great time meeting the crew of STS-124. There were pleanty of 'spaces' so to speak
Regards all

Martin

PS I live in York so Bradford been only  'next door' would have been a crime not to go

[paulbacon]

I was surprised to see so many people from companies there, and also how little they knew about the shuttle program. I got talking to one women and she didnt know anything about it. Didnt know they launched shuttles every few months, didnt know how many they had roughly launched or anything like that.

i was thinking the audience would all be space geeks like me, but seems not