University of Sheffield (BSc in 1984) Birkbeck, University of London (Ph.D in 1987)
Occupation
Chemist
Space career
Project Juno astronaut
Time in space
7d 21h 13m
Selection
1989 Juno
Missions
Soyuz TM-12, Soyuz TM-11
Mission insignia
Signature
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and astronaut 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.
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and astronaut who became the first British person, first Western European...
Daniel Sharman (born 1986), British actor Dew Sharman (born 1965), Suriname politician HelenSharman (born 1963), British astronaut H. B. Sharman (1865–1953)...
Only 7 of 48 countries have been represented by female "first flyers" (HelenSharman for the United Kingdom in 1991, Anousheh Ansari for Iran in 2006, Yi...
and Marion Basco, a psychotherapist from Cambridge. Her father taught HelenSharman at university, remembering her turning up for lectures on her motorbike...
Project Juno was a privately funded campaign which selected HelenSharman to be the first Briton in space. As the United Kingdom did not, at that time...
selection of four astronauts: HelenSharman, Major Timothy Mace, Clive Smith and Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Gordon Brooks. Sharman was eventually chosen for...
any national astronaut program or astronaut corps (Toyohiro Akiyama, HelenSharman, the Space Adventures customers and the sub-orbital SpaceShipOne and...
second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch (following HelenSharman), the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International...
engineer, Commander Anatoly Artsebarsky, and British astronaut HelenSharman. Sharman returned to Earth with the following crew after one week, while...
(Thuraya 2) United Kingdom United Kingdom Space Agency UKSA 1 Apr 2010 (HelenSharman) (Ariel 1) (Prospero) United Nations United Nations Committee on the...
Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican-born person in space. In 1991, HelenSharman became the first Briton to fly in space. In 2002, Mark Shuttleworth...
of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent HelenSharman to the Mir space station. He is credited with the invention of the gel...
Dillon Shannon Johnson Lisa Goodwin-Allen (Simon Rogan for fish course) HelenSharman Scotland Roberta Hall-McCarron Stuart Ralston Scott Smith Amy Elles...
experiments for Russian and Japanese companies. In 1991, British chemist HelenSharman was selected from a pool of 13,000 applicants to be the first Briton...
STS-59 (Apr. 9, 1994) STS-76 (Mar. 22, 1996) STS-108 (Dec. 5, 2001) 15 HelenSharman May 30, 1963 United Kingdom First British citizen in space. Second...
Hermaszewski Georgi Ivanov Sigmund Jähn Dumitru Prunariu Vladimír Remek HelenSharman Franz Viehböck NASA trained and flew astronauts from allied nations...
the Axiom-2 mission to the International Space Station. In May 1991 HelenSharman went into space on a flight to the Mir space station as a spaceflight...
1990 Toyohiro Akiyama Ryoko Kikuchi Japan Soyuz TM-11 Mir 18 May 1991 HelenSharman Timothy Mace United Kingdom Soyuz TM-12 Mir 2 October 1991 Franz Viehböck...
1990 28 November John Major becomes Prime Minister. 1991 18 - 26 May HelenSharman becomes the first British person and the first European woman in space...
the Middle East Henry Timberlake (1570–1625), merchant and traveller HelenSharman (born 1963), first British person in space and first woman to visit...
Zahl Harold Dorschug Harold E. Taylor Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper HelenSharman Henri G. Busignies Henry Bourne Joy Henry Feinberg Herbert Hoover Jr...
large crane. The boring machines were named Helen and Amy – after the first British astronaut HelenSharman, and Amy Johnson, the first female pilot to...
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