I wasn't mistaken. The delightful Juan de Dalmau does want me to give a presentation about Woomera at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana! I am so excited.
And now I'm thinking of other possibilities. The local music scene, for example. I must re-read Papillon, for Devil's Island is just off the coast and it was one of my very favourite books when a teenager. And of course I must master some of the more complicated French tenses and increase my French space vocabulary a thousandfold.
Here are some examples of French space lingo:
fusee - rocket
micropesanteur - microgravity
navette - space shuttle
scaphandre - spacesuit
I love the word scaphandre. It reminds me of the river Scamander, somewhere in the region of Troy. Very Homeric.
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