Helen Sharman was Britain's first astronaut -- she spent seven days on the Mir space station in 1991. Peake is the seventh British astronaut[0]. 0: https://en.

Helen Sharman was Britain's first astronaut -- she spent seven days on the Mir space station in 1991. Peake is the seventh British astronaut[0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_space_programme#British_astronauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_space_programme#Britis...