Get to know the West Midlands's new astronaut, pensioner Olympian Jon Goodwin
Jon Goodwin, centre, with his crewmates. Picture: Virgin Galactic
Mr Goodwin, who lives near Market Drayton in the Staffordshire village of Baldwin's Gate, competed as a canoeist at the 1972 Munich Olympics and still holds the Arctic Canoe Race record that he set in 1985.A Ferrari owner, hill-climb champion, husband and father of two boys, Mr Goodwin was the fourth person to sign up to go to space with Virgin Galactic. Hundreds have since followed him to join the ranks of the fewer than 700 people to go into space.
He was the first Olympian to become an astronaut when the VSS Unity took off from New Mexico in the USA at about 4pm UK time.
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