Helen Sharman is a British chemist who became the first British citizen to fly in space, launching aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in May 1991 to the Mir space station as part of a privately and government-sponsored British program called Project Juno. She was selected from thousands of applicants who responded to a radio advertisement seeking astronaut candidates, with no prior background in the space program, and she spent about eight days in orbit conducting scientific experiments.
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1963-05-30
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born 30 May 1963
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United Kingdom
Project Juno, paragraph 8
The Soyuz TM-12 mission
In Group: British Astronauts, Lead sentence
Helen Patricia Sharman (born 30 May 1963) 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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