The nation’s heart melted when Cork boy Adam King told the nation on the Toy Show that he wanted to be a cap com at NASA. Last night his space dreams got a little closer when he was finally got his chance to ‘talk space’ with astronaut Chris Hadfield on the Late Late Show,.
In a really heartfelt moment, the veteran astronaut shared that like Adam he use to pretend to travel to space with his sisters and brother when he was a boy.
Adam also wanted to know if Chris had been scared when he flew in his first mission. His reply that he had studied and practiced so that he was ready when the time came. ‘I practiced just like you’re practicing over and over again so that on the day that I was going to space… even though it was a dangerous thing
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