THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
PETER JACKSON

ANY day now an international rugby player will climb aboard a NASA rocket and blast off from Cape Canaveral bound for somewhere 250 miles above Earth.
Jessica Watkins will spend the weekend finalising preparations for her journey into space, a venture described by the fictional Captain James T Kirk of the 1960’s Star Trek fame as ‘the final frontier where no man has gone before’.
The notion back then of a woman going there, not simply as one of the crew but in charge of the entire expedition, would have been thought of a...