{"id":206,"date":"2013-01-25T19:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2013-01-25T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:18:29","slug":"video-interview-with-helen-sharman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Video interview with Helen Sharman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketeers.co.uk\/node\/3185\" target=\"_d\">Rocketeers<\/a> blog comes the video interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Sharman\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Sharman<\/a>, one of the first genuine civilian space travelers and the first Briton to go to space.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ll note that she was in no way the first\u00a0 space tourist, though she is sometimes referred to as that. She did not decide to go to space and then made it happen with her own resources. She was instead selected in a competition with thousands of other people and her scientific background strongly influenced that selection.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NL3a7SG-KO4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Rocketeers blog comes the video interview with Helen Sharman, one of the first genuine civilian space travelers and the first Briton to go to space. (I&#8217;ll note that she was in no way the first\u00a0 space tourist, though she is sometimes referred to as that. She did not decide to go to space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video interview with Helen Sharman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11838,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11838","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":0},"title":"Space arts: Astrophotographer Andr\u00e9 van der Hoeven + &#8220;Project Juno&#8221; &#8211; the story of Helen Sharman","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of space arts items: * \u00a0The Art of Space Photography \u2014 Vantage \u2014 Medium\u00a0- An interview with\u00a0astrophotographer\u00a0Andr\u00e9 van der Hoeven\u00a0about the field and his techniques. 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