British Astronaut Drops in From Space in Time for Tea
Posted on: Saturday, 1 May 2004, 06:00 CDT
AFTER six months in space, all astronaut Michael Foale wanted was a cup of hot, sweet tea.
It was his first request after his Soyuz spacecraft touched down in Kazakhstan yesterday.
Together with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, the 47- year- old Briton had been doing research and maintenance on the International Space Station since last October.
Mr Foale, a space veteran since becoming the second Briton into space 1992, will be joined in Moscow by his American wife and two children.
His father, former Air Commodore Colin Foale, 74, said at home in Cambridge: 'This is the longest time he has been in space but we won't see him until June.
'After he recovers he will go back to America and spend a while getting into gravity again.'
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