Helen Sharman, born May 30, 1963 in Yorkshire, England, is the first British cosmonaut and first woman to visit the Mir space station. She launched aboard Soyuz TM-12 in May 1991. She was part of Project Juno, a cooperative project sponsored by private enterprises in Britain and by the Soviet government. Her experiments were mainly life sciences, since she had a PhD in chemistry. After about 7 days, she returned to Earth May 26 aboard Soyuz TM-11.
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