Fifty-four years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter space, Pirada Techawijit will go where no Thai has gone before.
The three winners of the Axe’s Apollo Space Academy competition were announced yesterday, and one of them was 29-year-old Pirada, the only woman among three Thai finalists selected by the Royal Thai Air Force’s Directorate of Medical Services.
Pirada is a satellite engineer in the government’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, who spends her days monitoring “Theos,” a satellite which monitors Thailand from space.
Pirada will travel to space next year on a Lynx Mark II spaceship to be launched from Mojave, California, with two other winners from among 107 contestants worldwide.
After Pirada was selected as one of the 23 finalists, she spent time at a space camp in Orlando, Florida, and had to go through physical and mental tests. Finally, she was selected as one of the three space travelers by the committee, which included Buzz Aldrin, the second human to walk on the moon.
Traveling in the spaceship Pirada said she will go beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to 103 kilometers above the ground to experience six minutes of weightlessness in orbit before returning, Bangkok Biz News reported.
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http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/home/detail/life-style/lifestyle/20140206/561492/à»ԴµÑÇ˭ԧä·¤¹ááµÐÅØÂÍǡÒÈ.html
http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/02/06/29-year-old-engineer-be-first-thai-enter-space-next-year
Naked & Quiet Life In Northern Thailand
Uncle Loi never wears a piece of clothing, and he might be the only nudist living in Thailand.
The 62-year-old man lives by himself in a small village of Nan province in the far north. Despite not wearing any clothing, Uncle Loi lives his life normally and socializes with his neighbours who claim he is a very nice, generous man.
He was recently interviewed by a television crew, who oddly enough applied the blur tool to censor all of Uncle Loi.
“He told me he’s just like other people, and if he could wear clothes, he would,” Uncle Loi’s neighbor said in the interview. “He’s just like us. He goes shopping. He attends local events.”
Asked why he chose the nudist lifestyle, Uncle Loi answered that it wasn’t a choice.
“My parents tried to put me in clothes when I was young, but I ended up getting rashes,” he explained. “So I have always refused to wear clothes.”
How does he get by in winter? Uncle Loi simply says he just covers himself with a blanket – but never clothes.
Uncle Loi is a farmer and never leaves his village. He says he’s used to being nude and always rejects when someone buys him a piece of clothing as a gift.
References:
http://news.bugaboo.tv/watch/105077/อนุวัตจัดให้_บุกตามหา_ลุงชีเปลือย.html
http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/02/11/naturist-nan-thai-nudist-lives-quiet-naked-life-northern-village
First Thai woman to enter space
Fifty-four years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter space, Pirada Techawijit will go where no Thai has gone before.
The three winners of the Axe’s Apollo Space Academy competition were announced yesterday, and one of them was 29-year-old Pirada, the only woman among three Thai finalists selected by the Royal Thai Air Force’s Directorate of Medical Services.
Pirada is a satellite engineer in the government’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, who spends her days monitoring “Theos,” a satellite which monitors Thailand from space.
Pirada will travel to space next year on a Lynx Mark II spaceship to be launched from Mojave, California, with two other winners from among 107 contestants worldwide.
After Pirada was selected as one of the 23 finalists, she spent time at a space camp in Orlando, Florida, and had to go through physical and mental tests. Finally, she was selected as one of the three space travelers by the committee, which included Buzz Aldrin, the second human to walk on the moon.
Traveling in the spaceship Pirada said she will go beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to 103 kilometers above the ground to experience six minutes of weightlessness in orbit before returning, Bangkok Biz News reported.
References:
http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/home/detail/life-style/lifestyle/20140206/561492/à»ԴµÑÇ˭ԧä·¤¹ááµÐÅØÂÍǡÒÈ.html
http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/02/06/29-year-old-engineer-be-first-thai-enter-space-next-year