As Tim Peake prepares for a six-month stay on the space station,Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut, or talks approximately the experience that awaits himWhen Tim Peake is blasted towards the stars next month on a Russian Soyuz rocket,he will carry an unexpected but highly appropriate gift with him. He will take a book, Road to the Stars by Yuri Gagarin, or that was given to him final month by a fellow astronaut,Helen Sharman. This is the copy she took into orbit in May 1991 when she became the first Briton in space.“Tim asked me whether there was anything I had that I would like him to take,” said Sharman. “He wanted to make that link between me, and the first Brit in space,and himself, the moment. I have kept the book very safe for 24 years and now Tim is going to take it up to the international space station.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com