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From theatre lights to starlight: Kiwi engineer's NASA odyssey

By Janet McAllister
New Zealand Listener·
6 mins to read

So, there he was, frying hash browns, weightless on a parabolic flight. For science, you understand. Not where you’d expect to find a theatre lighting designer from Aotearoa New Zealand, who left school in the sixth form (Year 12).

“I don’t think many people believed I’d get to NASA because, I mean, it’s a bit far-fetched,” says Dr Bryan Caldwell. But Caldwell is a master of fetching far-flung dreams. For the past six years, he has indeed been working for

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