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Personal: Female, Single. Born in Sheffield, UK. Bachelor of science in chemistry, 1984. Doctorate degree from Birbeck College, London. Mars Confectionery Ltd. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: British Commercial Group - 1989. Inactive Entered space service: 25 November 1989. Left space service: September 1998. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 7.88 days. Flew on commercial Juno mission to the Mir space station. One of three candidates from the United Kingdom in the 1992 ESA selection. She made the short list of 25 candidates but was not selected in 1992 and 1998. Worked as a television commentator. One of three candidates from the United Kingdom in the 1992 ESA selection. She was noticed on the short list of 25 candidate applicants by the European Astronauts Board Selection (EASB), but was not selected in 1992 and Sports, motorbiking.
Sharman Spaceflight Log
Sharman Chronology 25 November 1989 - British Commercial Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected for the Juno commercial British cosmonaut mission. 18 May 1991 - Soyuz TM-12. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-09. Carried Anatoli Artsebarski, Sergei Krikalev, Helen Sharman to Mir; returned Artsebarski, crew of Soyuz TM 8 to Earth. Second commercial flight with paying British passenger. Sponsoring British consortium was not quite able to come up with money, however. Flight continued at Soviet expense with very limited UK experiments. 26 May 1991 - Landing of Soyuz TM-11. Soyuz TM-11 landed at 10:03 GMT with the crew of Afanasyev, Manarov and Sharman aboard. Bibliography:
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