Sharman, Helen (1963-...), was the first person from the United Kingdom to travel into space. On May 18, 1991, a Soyuz TM-12 spacecraft carrying Sharman and two Soviet cosmonauts lifted off from a launch site in Kazakhstan. On May 26, after an eight-day stay aboard the Soviet Union's Mir space station, Sharman returned to Earth in a TM-11 Soyuz craft with two other cosmonauts who had completed their tour of duty on the station.
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