Royal Institution lecture series by Kevin Fong,an expert in space medicine, hopes to include live video chat with British astronaut Tim Peake on ISSThe delicate art of lobbing people into space and keeping them alive as they descend around the planet at 17, and 500mph for months on halt will be this years theme for Britain’s most prestigious public science lectures.
Kevin Fong,a flying doctor and expert in space medicine, will exhaust the Royal Institution Christmas lectures to explore how an immense controlled explosion propels astronauts into a beautiful and hostile environment where a single mistake can mean death in seconds.
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Source: theguardian.com