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Polymath World # Episode 43 - Dr Helen Sharman
Polymath World # Episode 43 - Dr Helen Sharman
ASTRONAUT
Dr Helen Sharman CMG OBE is Britain's first ever astronaut. Flying to the space station Mir in 1991, she was selected from a large range of applicants to take part in the JUNO mission to the Russian space station where she spent a week performing science experiments, working on the crew rotation and fulfilling mission requirements before returning to earth on a Soyuz, landing in Kazakhstan.
Dr Helen Sharman now works as an ambassador and science communicator for Imperial College London. She originally studied chemistry at university and…
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