18 May
2011
18 May
'11
10:12 a.m.
Last email should of course have said 20th not 30th anniversary !!!!!
Helen Sharman GB1MIR became the United Kingdom's first astronaut when she blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 1250 GMT on May 18, 1991 on her way to the MIR space station from where she operated GB1MIR. A video of her space flight can be seen at
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2011/helen_sharman.htm
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