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school in Britain was offering one of 100 postcards of Helen Sharman,
that country's first astronaut, to people who contacted them. Even
though I am not from there, I dropped them an email, and they responded
favorably. Upon closer inspection there are pen skips in the autograph
but I'll lean to this being a signature printed as part of the card
since I don't have another example to compare it to.
Still nice, and this went to my daughter's adventure book*. I do have a signed envelope with Sharman (she signed an envelope with the autographs of four of the Skynet astronauts), and this makes up for a signed photo I used to have of her.
*My daughter's adventure and story book is filled not only with stories I made up, ticket stubs, "passport stamps," and flyers from various events we've attended, but also signed photos of (primarily) female astronauts (both met and obtained from friends) as well as some of the male astronauts she's met. When she gets older and asks, "Who is that?" I plan to tell her of their accomplishments and what they did to get there. Not everyone can be an astronaut, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't work hard to do the best and be the best you can and should be, I'll tell her.
