Introduction

Nicol stot is a veteran nassa astronaut, aquinaut artist and author. Nicol flew to missions aboard the space shuttle discovery and spent a hundred and four days living and working in space as a crew member on the international space station. Nichol's new book, back to earth, what life in space taught me about our home planet,. shares stories of her own space flight, as well as reflections on what she learned up there about survival and crisis management. This series of the big interview is produced ahead of the am hiher gala, which takes place on the third of may at the science museum in london.