28-June-2009, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Gloucestershire
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Originally Posted by JohnD
Don't know if Mr.May has much of a profile in the US, but he's Captain Slow of Top Gear. He has his own life on TV though, in particular recently a series on 20th century technology. Perhaps arisng out of that, last night BBC showed two programmes, one with the above title and one called "James May at the Edge of Space". The first was JM seeing some Moon walker astronauts (not the usual ones), and training to go up in a U-2, the nearest thing, as I think he says that a middle aged, rather porky man could hope for, to going to the Moon.
It's really good, IMHO! Wonderful shots of the Curve of Earth from 700,000 ft, and an airliner pasing below, as far below as they are normally seen above. If you can get BBC iPlayer, see them again at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
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Erm, if anyone can get a plane to fly at 700,000 feet, I think NASA would like to hear about it. 
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