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 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 ...

(Gray News) - Retired NASA astronaut Mary Cleave died earlier this week at 76 years old. Cleave was part of two NASA spaceflights. She was a scientist with training in civil and environmental ...

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 ...