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