NASA Remembers Millie Hughes-Fulford – Space Ref

NASA Remembers Millie Hughes-Fulford
Press Release
From: NASA HQPosted: Friday, February 5, 2021
NASA is remembering Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist, who died Thursday. Hughes-Fulford was selected as a payload specialist in January 1983 and flew in June 1991 aboard the space shuttle Columbia on the STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS 1) mission, the first mission dedicated to biomedical studies. The mission flew more than 3.2 million miles, completing…

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