Mary Cleave, Who Glimpsed a Blighted Earth From Space, Dies at 76
After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research for NASA.
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After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research for NASA.
Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster, has died at the age of 76, the space agency announced on Wednesday.
Retired NASA astronaut and Utah State University alumna, Mary Cleave, died on Nov. 27. She was 76 years old.
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