Space control to Major Tim \u2013<\/p>\n
No it is not a misprint \u2013 it is Tim we mean and not Tom as referenced in the song Space Oddity<\/a> by David Bowie \u2013<\/p>\n Tim is one of our heroes here at GFD HQ \u2013 one of those guys whose life revolves around the sort of life style we more \u201cmere mortal\u201d types can only dream about.<\/p>\n Just to look at his photograph Tim looks pretty much like anyone you could meet in the street but this gentleman is about to take a huge step forward on behalf of the UK Space Programme when on the 15th<\/sup> December he blasts off on a Russian Soyez rocket to start a six month stint on the International Space Station as the first UK astronaut to achieve this fete.<\/p>\n Full name – Tim Peake<\/a> and he already has an interesting biography that will soon have a lot more even more interesting additional entries as his mission progresses, because, Tim has decided to use his time spent at the space station as a vehicle to rekindle the interest of today\u2019s children in the whole theory of space exploration as he explains in this BBC science article \u2013 https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-34723944<\/a><\/p>\n For those of us old enough to remember and have lived through such epic events as the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin and later the Moon Landing we need nothing to stimulate our interest but for today\u2019s generation of children space flight is something they have read about rather than experienced but all of that is about to change if Tim\u2019s\u201dout of this world \u201ccommunications are as are as good as he suggests they will be.<\/p>\n Here at GFD HQ we salute and admire all such modern day heroes as Tim but would we really have the nerve to swap places \u2013 we shall never know \u2013 there is a second line in the David Bowie hit that links ourselves with space travel \u2013<\/p>\n \u201cThis is Major Tom to ground Control<\/p>\n I\u2019m stepping through the door \u201c<\/p>\n And there is the incredibly tenuous link \u2013 we at GFD HQ ell doors – very ,very, very good composite doors whether it be from our Timber Composite Door<\/a> ,Global Door<\/a> ,Composite Door Prices<\/a> sites.<\/p>\n