8:52am Tuesday 9th February 2010
THE US space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on one of its last scheduled missions yesterday.
Endeavour, with six crew members on board including Dr Nicholas Patrick – originally from Saltburn, east Cleveland – took off in darkness from Cape Canaveral at 9.14am GMT.
Dr Patrick, 45, is part of a team that will spend 13 days working on the International Space Station.
Married with three children, Dr Patrick lives in Connecticut. He became a US citizen in 1994.
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