Who said we're not Rocket Scientists?

James "Happy" Gilmour played for the Club between 2008 and 2012 as a hooker and that of course was pretty special, but he's gone to even greater heights since then- literally. With his brother, he now runs an Australian rocket company called Gilmour Space Technologies. You can read about it here https://www.gspace.com/

The company's been going for about a decade and they've just announced the first launch of their Australian-made orbital rocket...

Long way from sticking your head in a scrum at 10.00 on a Saturday morning......

Its a great story - more information on the links below

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-12/gilmour-space-prepares-to-launch-australian-first-eris-rocket/103695162

• https://www.afr.com/technology/the-gold-coast-s-answer-to-spacex-is-now-worth-605m-20240214-p5f4xu#:~:text=Gold%20Coast%20space%20rocket%20technology,Australian%2Dmade%20rocket%20into%20orbit.
  

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmour_Space_Technologies

Here's James (on the right ) and his brother Adam - the joint founders of Gilmour Space