Astronaut Mary Cleave, first woman to fly on NASA shuttle after Challenger explosion, dies at 76

Astronaut Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on a NASA shuttle following the devastating 1986 Challenger explosion, died on Monday, NASA announced on its website. She was 76.

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