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What accomplishment matters most to you?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock

British space scientist and science educator

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Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2016 source ↗

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Nuala McGovern
In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
Tim Peake British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗

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