A British national in space

[RTFishall]

Why has a current British national not flown in space with NASA? When I see pictures of all the Shuttle astronauts they have flags of various nations on their sleeves, but never the Union Flag.

[Buenchico]

Explained rather well here:
http://www.guardian.c...aut-space-exploration

Chris

[boxtops]

Nicholas Patrick is British? He went up in February?
http://www.dailymail....ick-blasts-orbit.html

[Skids]

Michael Foale (dual citizenship) - 6 shuttle missions
Nicholas Patrick - 2 shuttle missions
Piers Sellers (British born but a US citizen when an astronaut) - 3 shuttle missions
Timothy Peake - was selected but never made it into space

http://en.wikipedia.o...of_astronauts_by_name

[theprof]

What about Helen Sharman?

[theprof]

My mistake. Helen was a cosmonaut. There's some good information here:

http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/Astronauts.shtml

[dundurn]

Richard Garriott, while an American citizen, was born in England. When he visited the ISS his coverall carried a logo showing a combined Stars and Stripes and Union Jack.