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Article: Weekend: Space is the new black; Raised on a diet of Captain James T Kirk, Blake's 7 and celebrity star-gazer Sir Patrick Moore playing the glockenspiel, Chief Feature Writer Paul Groves eventually got bored with space. But his ambition to be astronaut has resurfaced.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2004
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Byline: Paul Groves
The adolescent mind is a curious thing. I can vividly remember the moment I fell out of love with space and looking back now it makes absolutely no sense at all.
It was a family holiday to Tenerife when I was 12 and we went on a day trip to the island's volcano. As we stepped from our bus, the guide proudly announced we would be stepping on to a landscape that was as close to the lunar terrain as you would find on our planet.
I stepped on to the grey dirt and dusty gravel, smelt the pungent sulphur that filled the atmosphere and ...