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I A16 The Arizona Republic Sunday, Mh.v 19, 1991 i 4 4 4 Soviets launch 1st Briton into space on dream flight NEW FROM UDC HOMES A GranD Pre-Opening 4 4 Striking New Designs Higher Ceilings, More Volume 8-foot Exterior Doors Even More Stylish Exteriors Special Incentives While We Put On The Finisliing Tbuches The Associated Press DAIKONUR COSMODROME, U.S.S.R. A British scientist rocketed into space Saturday with two Soviet cosmonauts, becoming the first Briton in space. It is a trip the woman Helen Sharman has dreamed about since hearing a commercial on her car radio nearly two years ago. The Soviet Soyuz TM-12 spacecraft carrying Sharman and her crew mates soared above the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia seconds after blastoff at 3:53 p.m. Moscow time, 4:53 a.m.

Arizona time. "Bye, Mum. Love to the family," Sharman told her parents, John and Lyndis Sharman of Sheffield, England, before leaving for the launch pad. Helen Sharman, 27, began her journey in June 1989, when, listening to her car radio, she heard un advertisement for a contest that said, "Astronaut wanted: No experience necessary." She beat out 13,000 other applicants in the contest financed by the London-based Moscow Narodny Bank and trained 17 months for her eight days in space. She is the first Briton to travel into space, officials in London said.

Hours after liftoff on the 147-foot -tall, 310-ton rocket, Sharman and crew mates Anatoly Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev were reported to be feeling well as they orbited 150 miles above Earth. Monday, the spacecraft will dock at the orbiting Mir space station, currently occupied by cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev and Musa Manarov. Sharman will return to Earth on May 26, with Afanasyev and Manarov. Artsebarsky, the flight commander, and Krikalev will remain aboard the 5-year-old space station for five months of repair work. Soviet television showed Sharman, called Lenochka, a Russian nickname for "Helen," strapped into the capsule minutes before launch.

She waved at a camera inside the capsule and smiled about 2 minutes after liftoff. Artsebarsky reported to ground controllers in a steady voice, "We can feel gradual acceleration. Slight vibration. We are feeling all right. More noise normal.

Less vibration." Sharman's parents watched the liftoff from an observation deck 800 yards from the launch pad. "However many emotions there are, we've just been through them all," John Sharman said. He and his wife were scheduled to fly to Mission Control Center in Kaliningrad, north of Moscow, to speak with their daughter by radio today. Helen Sharman, a chemist who had worked with Mars i iSEL A'AN luxury SSTJ 1 homes from VlLWO 54th St. north of Bell 867-1400 $155,900 By UDC HOMES Listed on the New York Stock Exchange The Associated Press Helen Sharman (center) joins Soviet cosmonauts Anatoly Artsebarsky (top) and Sergei Krikalev as they board the Soviet Soyuz TM-12 spacecraft.

Sharman beat out 1 3,000 other applicants in a contest to go on the mission. Confectionery is expected to perform Soviet medical and agricultural experiments during the mission. She also will help monitor spacecraft systems and speak by radio with children from nine British schools. At a news conference with her crew mates Friday, Sharman agreed with them that the mission will be difficult. But, she added, "I hope everything else won't be as difficult as studying Russian." Sharman is the first woman on a Soviet space mission since cosmonaut Svetlana Savistskaya went up in 1984.

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