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I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Shuttle
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Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Britain
Mars
Mission
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I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Infinity
Orbit
Low
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There is very little difference between men and women in space.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Women
Space
Differences
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I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Physiology
Suited
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I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Space
Astronaut
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Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Deal
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On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Electrical
Developed
Lights
Mir
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We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Boundaries
Britons
Explorers
Pushing
Adventurers
After
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The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Inspirational
Useful
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People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Asking Questions
Fascinated
Flight
Motivates
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There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Gain
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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 / Chemist
Astronaut
Tired
Window
Occasionally
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I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Teamwork
Commander
Establish
Heading
Operated
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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 / Chemist
Holiday
Time Space Myself
Classify
Space Time Myself
Tourist
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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 / Chemist
Most Amazing
Relaxing
Space Station
Station
Weightless
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You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Science
Space
Endeavour
Exploration
Not Worth It
Reason
Worth It
Science Space Exploration
Economically
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I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Blocked
Britain
Handful
Standing
Unfortunately
High Office
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I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Mir
Remote
Trip
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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 / Chemist
Space
Fruit
International
International Space Station
Lettuce
Seeds
Taken
Astronauts
Eaten
Grown
Produced
Space Station
While
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The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Britain
Special
Stars
Window
More People
View
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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 / Chemist
Britain
Investment
Space Travel
Term
Benefit
Enable
Women And Men
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Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Expensive
Flight
Gains
Short Term
Term
Returns
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As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Atmosphere
Molecules
Positively
Charged
Craft
Heated
Highly
Negatively
Reactive
Surrounding
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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 / Chemist
Space
Blue
Brilliant
Clouds
Earth
Green
Ireland
Looks
New Zealand
Red
White
Although
Appears
Brick
Deserts
Surprisingly
Zealand
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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 / Chemist
History
Space
Travel
Earth
History Books
Huge
Humans
Importance
Left
Recognition
Routine
Space Travel
Thousand
Thousand Years
Books
Central
Star
Deserves
Moment
Story
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Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Mars
Old People
Possibility
Mission
Reprehensible
Returning
Surely
They Say
Trip
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During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Ocean
Space
Blue
Clouds
Covered
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Protective
Streaming
Sunlight
Window
Launch
Rocket
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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 / Chemist
Darkness
Dawn
Earth
Faster
Hours
Lightness
Periods
Spectacular
Sunset
Together
Axis
Meant
Often
Times
Towards
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