Dr Helen Sharman ... rather than what you can't," said Dr Sharman, who became the first woman to visit the space station Mir. "Astronauts prepare themselves to be isolated on a space station ...

In 1991, Sheffield-born Helen Sharman was the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space station. On Friday, the astronaut, now 60, visited Iqra Primary Academy in Bradford, after accepting an ...

Helen Patricia Sharman, is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in May 1991. Originally graduating from the Department of ...

As an operations engineer it varies from developing cosmonaut spacewalk training ... Who is your female space hero? I saw Helen Sharman’s flight to the Mir space station in 1991, and that ...