BBCNEWS The New Space Race June 4, 2024 02:38:00
I was a teenager at the time. and, yes, for me, that was the herald of all things that were going to create world peace. absolutely. and astronauts and cosmonauts, we've always had this connection and really worked closely. and the scientists will be the same. when you work really closely with a group of people, whatever their nationality, you do learn to trust. i still trust some of those russian people with my life. helen sharman was the uk's first astronaut. she flew with the soviet cosmonauts. the handshake in orbit led to her mission on the space station mir in 1991. seven years later, th...