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British Astronauts

British astronauts, including those selected by the European Space Agency or flying for the United Kingdom, who have worked aboard the International Space Station. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them a British astronaut or an astronaut of the United Kingdom. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.

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Wikipedia: Tim Peake
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Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a retired British European Space Agency astronaut, Army Air Corps officer and author.
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Wikipedia: Helen Sharman
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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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Rosemary Coogan (Wikipedia)
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In 2022, Coogan was selected by the European Astronaut Corps to join the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group.
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