Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting and ...

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.

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 ...