On this day in 1991 - May 18th - Helen Sharman became the first Briton and the first European woman in space.
She was launched with crew mates Anatoli Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev on a Soyuz spacecraft, orbiting Earth for two days before docking with the Mir space station where she performed a number of experiments.
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