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Personal: Male, Married. Born in Catterick, Yorkshire, UK. Royal Air Force Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering, Military University in Shrivenham, Swindon, 1977 . Royal Air Force Major, Royal Air Force. Helicopter instructor pilot and parachutist. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: British Commercial Group - 1989. Inactive Entered space service: 25 November 1989. Left space service: September 1998. Commercial Juno program. One of three candidates from the United Kingdom for the 1992 European Space Agency selection. He made the short list of 25 candidates but was not selected in 1992 and 1998. Lived in South Africa, working as a helicopter pilot for the former President of South-Africa, Nelson Mandela. One of three candidates from the United Kingdom in the 1992 ESA selection. He was noticed on the short list of 25 candidate applicants by the Europ
Mace Chronology 25 November 1989 - British Commercial Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected for the Juno commercial British cosmonaut mission. 18 May 1991 - Soyuz TM-12. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-09. Carried Anatoli Artsebarski, Sergei Krikalev, Helen Sharman to Mir; returned Artsebarski, crew of Soyuz TM 8 to Earth. Second commercial flight with paying British passenger. Sponsoring British consortium was not quite able to come up with money, however. Flight continued at Soviet expense with very limited UK experiments. Bibliography:
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