Hi everybody! I'm sorry but I told you I was going to assist to an informal meeting with Pedro Duque and to a conference with Manuel Campo Vidal and I forgot to tell you about how they both went!! So in this post I'm going to talk about the Pedro Duque's one.
As you may have thought if you have read my "An Honoris Causa isn't enough" post, I was quite excited about having the chance to be in the same room as such an important person, who's been both aeronautical engineer (what I'd like to be in the future) and astronaut. But maybe I had too big expectations and that is why I'm a bit disappointed about how the meeting went... The main reason of this was that the meeting was too short (actually it didn't even reach 1 hour), in addition to the fact that it started about 20 min late.Therefore, we couldn't ask him many questions, and some of them weren't actually really important (in my opinion), compared to others we had thought of before the meeting. By the way, sometimes it was difficult for him to explain what he wanted to say, but this could have been because of two main factors:
- first, maybe he was trying to explain it in the best way so that we could understand it
- and second, because maybe we made a question whose answer we didn't expect and was really touchy for him (we asked something about his father and unfortunately we discovered that he isn't here any more, I don't know if you understand what I mean...I'm so sorry for that...)
Besides this, what I did like was the proximity that Pedro Duque had when he talked to us.
After this informal meeting, the "Honoris Causa" ceremony took place, but I didn't assist to it...
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