Seize the Moment: Autobiography of Britain's First Astronaut

by Chirstopher Priest (Author), Helen Sharman (Author), Arthur C. Clarke CBE (Foreword)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $31.20

  When working as a research technologist for Mars Ltd, Helen Sharman heard about Project Juno (an agreement under which a UK cosmonaut would fly on a Soviet/UK space mission), on the radio, whilst waiting in her car at traffic lights. After a selection process involving thousands of applicants, she travelled three million miles in space with Soviet cosmonauts, on a successful mission that had its share of controversy. In this book she tells of her experiences.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $11.49

  Helen Sharman was born in 1963 and was in primary school when man first landed on the Moon. She trained as a scientist and in 1989, when working as a research technologist for Mars Ltd, she heard about Project Juno (an agreement under which the UK would fly a cosmonaut on a Soviet/UK space flight) on the radio, whilst driving home from work. She jotted down the phone number as she waited at traffic lights, and then found herself on a list of thousands. But she made it to the short-list of four, and her final selection put paid to suggestions that she was the token woman . Helen travelled three million miles in space with Soviet cosmonauts, on a successful mission that also had its share of controversy, and in this book she tells her story.