Helen Sherman
In 1963, Sherman was born in Sheffield. She and 13,000 other people answered a radio ad, asking for people who want to be U.K.’s first astronaut. She was chosen and spent over a year of training intensely.
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She finally went abroad Mir, and her stay in space was scheduled to be short. She got to go to space, but she returned to earth just seven days later.