BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 22:47:00
Absolutely. and astronauts and cosmonauts, we've always had this connection and we've 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, the soviets launched the first stage of the international space station. an american module, called unity docked onto it, pa...