Richard Farrimond
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Richard Alfred Farrimond (born September 15, 1947) is a British engineer, former militarian and astronaut candidate.
Born in Birkenhead (Cheshire), he studied at the Royal Military Academy and received a BS in telecommunications at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham in 1972. He was Lieutenant-Colonel at the Royal Corps of Signals of the British Army. After leaving the Army, he worked for British Aerospace and later for Matra Marconi Space.
In July 1984 he was chosen as the backup payload specialist to fly with the Space Shuttle mission STS-61-H, which was planned to deliver the British Skynet 4A satellite to space. However after the Challenger accident this space flight was cancelled, and he left the space program.
