Technically that is correct, because Helen Sharman was a cosmonaut rather than an astronaut or taikonaut.
But NASA does that all the time. They recently claimed to perform the first flight and sound transmissions from another planet. The Soviet Venera missions had already done this during the 1980s from Venus. NASA performed the first powered flight on Mars.
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Technically that is correct, because Helen Sharman was a cosmonaut rather than an astronaut or taikonaut.
But NASA does that all the time. They recently claimed to perform the first flight and sound transmissions from another planet. The Soviet Venera missions had already done this during the 1980s from Venus. NASA performed the first powered flight on Mars.