As
head of the LYNX Space Academy®, space
pioneer and legend Buzz Aldrin has announced the 23 winners of a year-long
global campaign for a trip to space. With 1 million entries worldwide, lucky Oliver
Knight from Malvern has won the space race, beating 87,000 other British
hopefuls to claim his trip into orbit.
Oliver,
aged 25 completed the final stage of the Lynx Space Academy competition in
Florida yesterday, where 4 British finalists competed against one another in a
series of gruelling physical and mental challenges which determined who would
win the coveted trip to space. He will take his trip into space next year,
breaking the sound barrier whilst flying 103 kilometres at the maximum airspeed
possible. The engine will then cut off and he will see Earth as only 500 have
before. The spaceship will reach ‘apogee’ at 103 km, at this point the lucky
cadet will experience weightlessness in zero gravity before beginning the
descent back to Earth.
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