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A woman was injured in a plane crash in a remote area of Calaveras County Thursday evening, the sheriff's office said.

Donna Shirley made space history in the 1990s as the first woman to manage a NASA program. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, the veteran aerospace engineer led both the Mars Exploration Program and the team that built Sojourner, the first rover to land on the Red Planet. That climaxed the Mars Pathfinder mission on July 4, 1997. Here are 11 facts about Shirley’s life and career. 1. Donna Shirley was eager to escape her small-town Oklahoma roots. Shirley was born ...