A scheme aimed at honouring the great and good of Sheffield is to be relaunched with a fresh set of nationally and globally ...

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 ...

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut to go to space, has told how she learned what really matters in life during her eight days orbiting Earth in May 1991. The 61-year-old, from Sheffield ...

She will become the UK’s third astronaut, following Helen Sharman, who became the first in 1989, and Tim Peake, who went to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.

Meet Britain's newest astronaut! Rosemary Coogan, 33, officially gets her 'wings' and is set to fly into space by 2030 - following in the footsteps of Tim Peake and Helen Sharman ...

Born in Northern Ireland, she will become the UK’s third astronaut, following Helen Sharman, who became the first Briton in space in 1989, and Tim Peake, who went to the International Space ...

Sheffielder Helen Sharman, who went to space back in 1991, was at Iqra Academy on Drummond Road in Manningham, last Friday. Pupils from Feversham Girls’ Academy and Bronte Girls’ Academy were ...

Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut, thundered up to space in 1991 as part of Project Juno – a joint Soviet-British mission designed to improve the relationship between the countries.

Britain's first astronaut has been given an honorary degree by the University of Leicester. Helen Sharman made history when she blasted off on a mission to the Soviet Union's Mir space station in ...

Britain's first astronaut has received an honorary degree from the University of Leicester. Helen Sharman spent eight days orbiting the Earth in 1991 as part of Project Juno - a commercial mission ...

Britain has only had two astronauts in space before - Helen Sharman in 1989 and Tim Peake 27 years later. Rosemary Coogan, a Northern Irish astrophysicist, hopes to make it three after being ...