Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘I have no doubt that aliens are out there’

The space scientist, 51, on appearing in The Clangers, being the class clown, how science can save us and extraterrestial life formsI can ’t remembera time when I wasn ’t fascinated by space. I was born in 1968, a year before the moon landings. It’s hard now to comprehend just how exciting that was for my generation. It really was moon madness. But it was also because ofThe Clangers, the children ’s TV show. I was obsessed with it. They’ve rebooted the series now and it recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. They included a little Maggie model in it. I was about the happiest I’ve ever been!I don ’t think I ’m especially clever. I was very disillusioned at school. I was put in the remedial class, stuck at the back of the room playing with the safety scissors and the glue. I don’t think my teachers had any expectations for me and I ended up being the class clown, always mucking about and trying to m ake people laugh.Continue reading...
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