Helen Sharman

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Helen Patricia Sharman, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is the first British cosmonaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station.

Early life and education

Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School before moving to Greenhill. She earned a BSc degree in chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1984 and a PhD degree from Birkbeck, the University of London in 1987, after studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive. She began as a research and development technonologist for GEC in London and later as a Mars chemist investigating chocolate's flavoring properties. "The Girl From Mars" was the name given by the UK press later.

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Later career

Sharman spent the eight years after her mission to Mir self-employed, exposing science to the public. Seize the Moment, her autobiography, was published in 1993. The Space Place, a children's book, was released in 1997. She has appeared on radio and television shows, including for BBC Schools.

By 2011, she was working at the National Physical Laboratory as Group Leader of the Surface and Nanoanalysis Group. In 2015, Sharman became Operations Manager for the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. She continues to work in chemistry and spaceflight, and was given an Honorary Fellowship by the British Science Association in 2015.

Sharman appeared in an episode of Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks in August 2016.

Sharman said in an interview in January 2020 that "aliens exist, there are no two ways about it," but that "it's likely... we just can't see it," referring to the concept of a shadow biosphere.

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