The surprising story behind the first British person in space | Hacker News
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A Hacker News thread notes that the first British person in space flew in 1991.
That milestone came on a Soviet mission, not a NASA flight.
The USSR had already flown several foreign nationals before Britain did.
The case shows how politics, launch timing, and propaganda shaped early human spaceflight.
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