Astronaut dies of injuries from plane crash
Posted: Fri, May 25, 2001, 11:04 AM ET (1504 GMT)
NASA astronaut Patricia Hilliard Robertson died late Thursday, two days after sustaining critical injuries in a small plane crash. Robertson was severely burned when the private plane she was riding in crashed while performing a series of touch-and-go landing tests at an airfield near Houston. The Houston Chronicle reported that Robertson and the civilian pilot of the plane suffered second- and third-degree burns over 90 percent of their bodies. Robertson, a doctor, was selected to the astronaut corps in the class of 1998, but had not yet been assigned to a shuttle or station mission. She had been working as a liaison between mission control and the astronaut office in support of the Expedition Two crew aboard the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Patricia Hilliard Robertson died late Thursday, two days after sustaining critical injuries in a small plane crash. Robertson was severely burned when the private plane she was riding in crashed while performing a series of touch-and-go landing tests at an airfield near Houston. The Houston Chronicle reported that Robertson and the civilian pilot of the plane suffered second- and third-degree burns over 90 percent of their bodies. Robertson, a doctor, was selected to the astronaut corps in the class of 1998, but had not yet been assigned to a shuttle or station mission. She had been working as a liaison between mission control and the astronaut office in support of the Expedition Two crew aboard the International Space Station.
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