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.

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.

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Mary Cleave, a former NASA astronaut and engineer, died Monday at age 76 according to a release from NASA, Cleave was the tenth woman in space, the first woman to fly in NASA’s space shuttle after the ...

After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research for NASA. By Richard Sandomir Mary Cleave, an astronaut who saw ...

Retired astronaut Mary Cleave, the first woman to crew a spaceflight after the shocking Challenger explosion of 1986, died on Monday, NASA announced. She was 76. A cause of death was not immediately ...

Dr Kaye Cleave, 76, hasn't been active her whole life. Sadly, her relationship with movement has been bound up with personal tragedy. Her father's passing at 13 meant she had to stop gymnastic classes ...

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. NASA did not give a cause of death, the ...

Dr Kaye Cleave, 76, hasn't been active her whole life. Sadly, her relationship with movement has been bound up with personal tragedy. Her father's passing at 13 meant she had to stop gymnastic classes ...