Pioneering Commercial Space Advocate Patricia Smith Dies

Patricia (Patti) Grace Smith, a trail-blazing federal space regulator who pinned the wings on the first commercial-space astronaut, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. A longtime U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Department of Transportation official, she left her post as associate FAA...

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