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 ...

Dr Helen Sharman told the Observer Magazine that extra-terrestrial life is bound to be somewhere in the universe. "Aliens exist, there's no two ways about it," she said, adding that "there must be ...

Helen Sharman made history when she blasted off on a mission to the Soviet Union's Mir space station in 1991. Dr Sharman, who was selected from 13,000 applicants to become the first Briton in ...