| LC control no. | n 80091985 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cleave, Mary Louise |
| Located | Annapolis (Md.) |
| Birth date | 1947-02-05 |
| Death date | 2023-11-27 |
| Place of birth | Southampton (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Annapolis (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Astronautics Environmental sciences |
| Affiliation | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Utah State University |
| Profession or occupation | Astronauts Scientists |
| Found in | Her Effects of oil shale leachate on phytoplankton productivity, 1979: t.p. (Mary Louise Cleave) Baltimore sun WWW site, viewed December 12, 2023 (in obituary published December 3, 2023: 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 in Annapolis. Cleave, who died Nov. 27, was a native of Great Neck, New York. She studied biological sciences at Colorado State University before going on to earn her master's in microbial ecology and a doctorate in civil and environmental engineering from Utah State University. In 1991, Cleave moved to Annapolis, which led her to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, home of the agency's environmental spacecraft programs. At Goddard, Cleave managed a project to measure all the phytoplankton in the ocean via spacecraft, developing models to understand carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere. Cleave went on to do other work gathering data from space to help scientists better understand climate change. She retired from NASA in 2007) Washington post WWW site, viewed December 15, 2023 (in obituary dated December 8, 2023: Mary L. Cleave, a NASA astronaut who joined the space agency after seeing a recruitment flier at a post office, serving on two space shuttle missions in the 1980s and then leading climate change research that scanned ocean ecosystems with images from orbit, died Nov. 27 at her home in Annapolis, Md. She was 76. Mary Louise Cleave was born in Southampton, N.Y., on Feb. 5, 1947, and raised in another Long Island community, Great Neck) |
| Associated language | eng |
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