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Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA s first female payload specialist in space, dies at 75
Space
05/02/2021
Robert Z. Pearlman
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STS-40 payload specialist Millie Hughes-Fulford poses for a photo in the tunnel connecting space shuttle Columbia s middeck to the Space Life Sciences-1 (SLS-1) Spacelab module in 1991.
The first American woman to launch into space who was not a professional astronaut but a working scientist, Millie Hughes-Fulford, has died at the age of 75.
Hughes-Fulford s death was confirmed by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) on Thursday (Feb. 4).
We are grateful for her research and advancements with her work in the life sciences. Please join us in expressing our sympathy to Millie s family and friends at this time, Caroline Schumacher, ASF president and chief executive officer, wrote in an email. ....

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