Ken Willoughby and Space Lectures are delighted to announce that the next astronaut speaker coming to Pontefract this autumn is none other than Ret US Navy Captain Bruce McCandless II.
Bruce McCandless II
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Please… call me Scooter
During April 2017 retired United States Navy Captain Scott D. Altman joined us and made his first public appearance in the UK.
Mark & Scott Kelly
The world’s first “space twins”, retired US Navy Captain Mark Kelly and former NASA astronaut and retired US Navy Captain Scott Kelly shared a wealth of Shuttle and ISS experiences, and Scott’s most reecent historic one year mission with our very own Tim Peake aboard the ISS.
Tom Stafford
General Tom Stafford, A pioneering astronaut with an enviable spaceflight record, his NASA days formed just part of an amazing career to which ALL of his contemporaries could only aspire. A veteran of 4 historic space missions, he is also largely responsible for 60% of the current US Air Force strike capability -stealth bombers to F16s, refuelling tankers to Tomahawk missiles.