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 ...

Helen Stella (Szwaczkowski) Rockowicz Sharman, 91, Bern Township, died May 25, 2008, in Reading Hospital, where she had been a patient since May 21. She was predeceased by two husbands ...

Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut, has visited St Edward’s School in Poole to inspire students with her career story. The chemist and president of the Institute of Science and ...