ABC Tim Gibson was selected for the space flight from more than one million contestants. <\/p>\n
A Queensland man who won a worldwide competition to fly to outer space is preparing for lift-off after five days of intense training. <\/p>\n
Tim Gibson has just returned to Australia after the training camp at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. <\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Yeppoon property manager is not an astronaut, but was among 23 people selected in a competition run by the Lynx Space Academy to fly to outer space. <\/p>\n
He was initially selected from more than 1 million entrants. <\/p>\n
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the second person ever to walk on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, was in the same room when the winners were announced. <\/p>\n
\"Then they called my name and I thought, no way! No way!\" Mr Gibson said. <\/p>\n
He says training for the trip has been an incredible experience so far with zero-gravity flights and drills in fighter jets. <\/p>\n
\"We did a bit of dog fighting, loops, barrel rolls,\" he said. <\/p>\n
\"I didn't pass out and wasn't sick which was great.\" <\/p>\n
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