I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons – women and men – will travel into space. Helen Sharman Read Quote
I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling. Helen Sharman Read Quote
We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers. Helen Sharman Read Quote
The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It’s something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing. Helen Sharman Read Quote
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them. Helen Sharman Read Quote
I don’t classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn’t as though I paid and had a holiday out of it – although I had a fab time. Helen Sharman Read Quote
From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you don’t see much green, although Ireland looks green, and so do Scandinavia and New Zealand. The deserts are brick red and really stand out. Helen Sharman Read Quote
While we’ve taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they’ve grown, we haven’t produced fruit in space, so we can’t pollinate something. Helen Sharman Read Quote
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition. Helen Sharman Read Quote
Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you’d look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular. Helen Sharman Read Quote
