Astronauts who flew representing the United Kingdom, both a privately sponsored cosmonaut flight to Mir and, from the 2010s, the European Space Agency's astronaut corps. Belongs here: any astronaut who flew representing the United Kingdom. Does not belong here: a British-born individual who flew for another nation's own astronaut corps.
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1. Wikipedia: Helen Sharman
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Helen Patricia Sharman is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.
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