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"There are two parts that appear green from space, South Island in New Zealand, the other was Ireland" - Helen Sharman CMG OBE

After responding to a radio advertisement asking for applicants to be the first British astronaut, Helen Sharman CMG OBE was selected for the mission live on TV, on 25 November 1989, ahead of nearly 13,000 other applicants. Project Juno was a cooperative Soviet Union鈥揃ritish mission co-sponsored by a group of British companies. She landed aboard Soyuz TM-11 on 26 May 1991, along with Viktor Afanasyev and Musa Manarov.

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