09-05-2025
Dr Garry E Hunt: ‘People expected me to fail because I was doing something odd'
Dr Garry E Hunt, now 82, was 28 when he became the first Briton selected by Nasa to be part of the Voyager project. The scientist, businessman and communicator began his career as a mathematician and atmospheric physicist, and conducted groundbreaking research on space exploration of the solar system. Hunt then turned his attention to the business world, running companies and advising governments all over the world. Hunt has also served on numerous boards as a non-executive director in the US, Europe and the UK.
As a broadcaster he has worked on many TV programmes, including co-presenting the BBC's The Sky at Night with Patrick Moore for more than 20 years from 1973. Hunt received an OBE for his services to space science and business
