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Personal: Male, Married, Three children. Born in Birkenhead, UK. British Army Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Bachelor of science in telecommunications engineering from the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, 1972. British Army Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Signals Corps, British Army Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: July 1984. Left space service: January 1986. After retirement from active duty he worked with British Aerospace, then Matra Marconi Space UK Ltd., Bristol, and Paradigum Secure Communications in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Orienteering, running.
Farrimond Chronology 1986 June - STS-61-H (cancelled). Planned shuttle mission for deployment of commercial communications satellites. Cancelled after Challenger disaster. Bibliography:
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