Irish Examiner view: Bon voyage to a Cork woman heading into space

Rhiannon Adam is one of just nine artists and creatives selected to take a journey into space including a circuit around the moon

Rhiannon Adam, 37, a Cork woman now based in Hackney, north London, is one of the nine people from among more than a million applicants selected to fly around the moon. Picture: Rhiannon Adam/PA

It wouldn’t be a voyage without someone from Cork on board and, while the passenger may not be Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee, the city will have at least one representative on the planned inaugural civilian trip around the moon.

Photographic artist Rhiannon Adam, 37 and born in Cork, has been named as one of nine astronauts of the dearMoon project which will carry private citizens beyond low-Earth orbit.