Helen Sharman

Helen Patricia Sharman OBE FRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and astronaut. 

She became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1993.

She worked as a research and development technologist for GEC in London and later as a chemist for Mars Incorporated dealing with nice properties of chocolate.

Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield.

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