Where doctors dare

Torn between space and medicine, Kevin Fong took degrees in astrophysics and in medicine at University College London. He studied space medicine at Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers in the US. He co-founded the Centre for Aviation, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine at UCL in 2000. Last year, he won a £75,000, five-year fellowship, part of which he plans to use to experience hostile environments and research human physiology. His love affair with space started when he was dragged out of bed, aged 4, to watch TV pictures of the Apollo-Soyuz test programme. The sense of wonder, he says,…