Helen Sharman made history in May 1991 as the ... she pointed out the sexism in the assumption that the first British astronaut must have been a man. "People often describe me as the first ...

IN 1989, Helen Sharman answered a radio advertisement that would change her life. She applied to be an astronaut aboard the Soviet space station Mir, competing against 13,000 other candidates for ...

Helen Sharman had already been to Mars when she was selected, three decades ago, to be Britain’s first astronaut and the first West European woman in space. Did you know with a Digital ...

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