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British astronaut and astrophysicist Colin Michael Foale talks to amateur radio operators on earth via the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX), during the STS-56 mission, April 1993. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

British astronaut and astrophysicist Colin Michael Foale talks to amateur radio operators on earth via the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX), during the STS-56 mission, April 1993.  (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)