31 Quotes by Helen Sharman

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time.