Mary Cleave, ‘trailblazing’ astronaut, dies at 76

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 missions after the Challenger disaster of 1986, and the first woman to lead the Science Mission Directorate. “I’m sad we’ve lostContinue reading “Mary Cleave, ‘trailblazing’ astronaut, dies at 76”
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