Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman
Michael James Foremanis a retired U.S. Navy pilot and a NASA astronaut. While with NASA, Forman was part of a mission that delivered the Japanese Experiment Module and the Canadian Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator to the International Space Station. Foreman was also a crewmember of the STS-129 mission in November 2009...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth29 March 1957
CityColumbus, OH
ration
I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
properly teaches
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
forms friendship henry sailor tells true unusual
My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
dreamt good life spend
Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
classics fairy hung tales until
I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.
capturing essence
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
area city coming exploring land people recycling rubbish saw survived
When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.