IF you have ever been curious about what it is like to be shot off the earth into space and to live and work in a shuttle while orbiting the earth, then don’t miss the upcoming Living Maths Space Tour 2017 with astronaut, Dr Don Thomas.
South African students and families will have a unique opportunity to get into the same room with a bona fide spaceman when Dr Don Thomas visits the country for a series of public talks and school visits. He will speak at the Durban Girls’ College Auditorium on 9 November from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
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During his seven years with NASA, Dr Thomas completed four sensational shuttle missions, logging over 1040 hours of adventuring in space. His inaugural mission aboard the STS-65 Columbia in July 1994 set a new flight duration record for the US Space Shuttle program with 236 orbits of the earth and 6.1 million miles travelled in 353 hours and 55 minutes.
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