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# haven't there already been like loads of them
I think there's even been a Scot...
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 16:51, archived)
# Really?
Well, if Blessed went up, he'd still be the first.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 16:53, archived)
# apparently not
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8058601.stm

However:
The first Briton in space was Sheffield-born chemist Helen Sharman. She had to secure private funding to fly to the Mir space station on a Russian Soyuz craft in 1991.

Three British-born astronauts have flown into space under an American flag: Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 16:54, archived)
# How did they see where they were going?
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 17:04, archived)
# Jim Irwin wasn't British. Fact.

(, Wed 20 May 2009, 17:04, archived)
# and she fell over carrying the flame up the steps at the 1991 Student games
yes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sharman#Later_career

how the fuck did I remember that. Oh yes IT WAS FUCKING FUNNY!
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 17:15, archived)