A spaceman came travelling.....

 

 

On Tuesday 29th June 2010 Whitchruch High School was honoured and delighted to welcome Michael Good, NASA astronaut, to the School.

Michael Good was part of the six person NASA team visiting Cardiff as the first leg of their World Tour having landed from space some four weeks ago.  Michael had a distinguished career in the USA air force before becoming an astronaut logging over 3000 hours in more than 30 aircraft.  Michael’s NASA career began in 2000 and following two years of training he was assigned specialist training roles within the flight programme.

He has served on two space shuttle missions: (1)  STS-125 the final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope and (2)  STS-132 to the International Space Station.  He has logged over 24 days in space as an astronaut and one of a very few to have  completed four space walks of 30 hours in space. 

Years 7, 8 and 9 had individual assemblies in the morning and watched an inspirational and spellbinding film of the missions.  Afterwards there was an opportunity to put some questions to Michael which he expertly answered.  Unfortunately NASA’s schedule changed for the afternoon and it was disappointing that Michael was not able to meet the primary school pupils and upper school students.

Michael Good was extremely complimentary of the school both in terms of interest and the quality of questions for the students.  He was equally highly impressed by the respectful way in which all pupils greeted him as he did a room tour between assemblies listening to the junior primary school orchestra rehearsal and an English lesson in the library.

We very much enjoyed Michael’s time with us.