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3 unusual facts about Helen Sharman


Heinz Wolff

Wolff was the scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mir space station.

The British School in the Netherlands

Established in 1976, the BSN Junior School Assen (The Helen Sharman School) was a small school community based in the north of the Netherlands.

Timothy Peake

If successful, Peake would become the first Briton to fly into space without a private contract (Helen Sharman, Sarah Brightman) or American citizenship (Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick).



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