Mary Cleave, shuttle astronaut who tracked climate change, dies at 76

Mary Cleave, shuttle astronaut who tracked climate change, dies at 76

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Dr. Cleave’s nearly four decades at NASA — including flights aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 1985 and 1989 — covered the program’s early successes and its most crushing tragedy. She was in astronaut training in 1981 when the Columbia made the first shuttle launch, and she was part of mission…

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