posted 11-17-2006 10:35 PM               

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Some time in the next few weeks Nick Patrick should become the fourth British-born astronaut, when Nasa's shuttle STS-116 blasts him into space. With luck he will have a less eventful trip than the space game he created as a 10-year-old, which he has just loaned to an exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

He would probably like to skip square 5, "lose contact with base for breif [sic] moment - back to 2", 122 "get put in brig for silly behaviour, miss one turn", or square 91 "most of the crew die from fever - miss 2 goes". His hand-drawn game board shows he originally thought the latter serious enough to miss four goes.

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