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.
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Interesting and enjoyable read,
By Miraz Jordan (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seize the Moment: Autobiography of Helen Sharman (Hardcover)
This was an interesting and enjoyable read. It tells the story of astronaut Helen Sharman's trip into space, and what led up to it.The chapters are nicely interleaved - a handy technique for maintaining interest. The book starts on launch day, and Chapter 1 takes Helen into space. Then the next chapter describes her childhood (briefly) and how she came to sign on as an astronaut. After that alternate chapters describe events of her time in space and return to Earth, or the selection process and her training. One of the things I loved was how she made it clear that she was an 'ordinary' person, from an ordinary town and family, with good but not medal-winning school scores, rather than 'astronaut stuff'. In fact, she hadn't ever dreamed or thought of space or being an astronaut, until one day when she heard an advertisement for the job. That's the kind of thing that holds out hope for others who may one day find themselves in position to take on something remarkable. This was a good and easy read, with lovely details about the daily experience of being in space.
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