Launched on the 18th May 1991 to the Mir space station, her mission name was Project Juno.
A chemist and astronaut, she became the first British person, the first Western European woman and the first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station.
OH heard a lot of grunting outside our kitchen window in the middle of the night. On looking to see, turns out it was two hedgehogs "very much in love" ๐๐
Seems there might be a family of hedgehogs soon ๐ค
Sometimes, on a whim, I'll check the AuroraWatch UK app... it invariably says No Significant Activity. This makes me chuckle as it reminds me of the Australian comedy show No Activity.
Suddenly woke up (02:30 here) and checked the Aurora Watch app and it showed a huge red line! So took a walk with OH along the footpath and for the first time in our lives for either of us, we saw the aurora!
My rubbishy phone didn't pick up any of it but my eyes did and I'm so happy! I just never expected to see it this far south (East Anglia, UK). It's beautiful!
Easily the most beautiful thing I've ever seen ๐ค๐
Happy birthday to Cecilia Payne, born 10th May, 1900.
A British born American astronomer and astrophysicist, she proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.