Dr Helen Sharman was a chemist who became the first British astronaut to go into space, as well as the first woman on the Mir space station. She obtained a BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD degree from Birkbeck. She worked with a research technology company and a chemist for Mars bars working on the flavor of chocolate. Then, she applied to “Project Juno” which recruited the first British astronaut. She was successful out of 13,000 applicants, and in May 1991 she was launched in a Soyuz spacecraft, spending 8 days orbiting Earth in the Mir Space Station.

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