I man of science, always have been, and anything that promotes it is great; however the ISS has been going for a long long time now with astronauts going up there all the time, and now just because a Brit goes up there we should all be interested in it and the broadcasters devote three tv channels to it? Then when he comes down again the media won't cover it again and its back to square one. They are philistines, the lot of them.