Project Juno

Project Juno was the British-Soviet mission that carried Helen Sharman to the Mir space station in May 1991, making her the first British person in space and the first woman to visit Mir. Sharman launched from Baikonur on Soyuz TM-12 with Anatoly Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev, docked with Mir two days later, and joined the station's eighth resident crew for a short research visit while the new Mir EO-9 crew arrived. During the mission Sharman worked as a research cosmonaut on medical, agricultural, chemistry, materials, and Earth-observation tasks, photographed the British Isles, and made amateur-radio contacts with schoolchildren in the United Kingdom. She returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-11 with Viktor Afanasyev and Musa Manarov on May 26, 1991. AeroVia models this record as Sharman's short-duration visitor mission, while Artsebarsky and Krikalev are linked separately through the long-duration Mir EO-9 resident mission.