Dr Helen Sharman has publicly announced that she believes extraterrestrial life exists — and aliens might be among us on Earth right now.
In 1989 she responded to a radio ad for Project Juno, a joint British-Soviet venture to send a group of Britons to space. Four candidates were selected out of 19,000 applicants, including an Air Corps Major and a Navy physician, but only Sharman ended up making the flight.
After 18 months of training, Sharman boarded the Soyuz TM-12 mission in May 1991. She spent eight days outside of the Earth's gravity, mostly in the space station Mir. While there, she participated in a number of experiments and cultural activities, including photographing the British Isles from space and engaging in a shortwave radio conversation with schoolchildren.
After returning to Earth, Sharman began working as an educator and ambassador to raise public interest in the sciences. Her autobiography,General consensus is that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the universe, simply by statistical probability. Human scientists have discovered the existence of over 4,000 planets outside of our solar system, and the SETI program continually scans for radio signal evidence of broadcast transmission.
Couple that with the fact that the nearest solar system to ours is Proxima Centauri, 4.24 light-years away, and the chances of encountering alien life that has not developed faster-than-light travel is virtually nonexistent. At our current level of technology, it would take humans 6,300 years to reach that star.
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