Autographs of Helen Sharman
Helen Patricia Sharman (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.
Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School, later moving to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, she obtained a BSc degree in chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1984 and a PhD degree from Birkbeck, the University of London in 1987. She worked as a research and development technologist for GEC in London and later as a chemist for the American confectioner Mars, dealing with the flavouring properties of chocolate. This later led the UK press to label her "The Girl from Mars".
After responding to a radio advertisement asking for applicants to be the first British space explorer, Sharman was selected for the mission live on ITV, on 25 November 1989, ahead of nearly 13,000 other applicants. She was commuting home from work when she heard the radio advertisement. “Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary.”\nThe programme was known as Project Juno and was a cooperative Soviet–British mission co-sponsored by a group of British companies. Its aim was to enhance the relationship between the UK and the Soviet Union in the twilight years of the Cold War by sending a British astronaut to the Mir space station.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Helen Sharman (Seize the Moment: Autobiography of Britain's 1st Astronaut SIGNED Helen Sharman) was sold in April 2026 for £150.00 while the cheapest item (HELEN SHARMAN Signed Photograph - First British Astronaut) found a new owner for £0.99 in November 2014. The month with the most items sold (5) was November 2014 with an average selling price of £14.51 for an autographed item of Helen Sharman. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2013 with £59.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.99 was June 2018. In average, an autographed item from Helen Sharman is worth £16.99.
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