Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1991.
1Flight
7d 21hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Sheffield
- Education
- University of Sheffield; Birkbeck, University of London; University of London
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; Officer of the Order of the British Empire; Order of Friendship of Peoples
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-12May 18, 1991
Born 1963-05-30 · age 63