TRAVERSE CITY, MI - A woman who was among 13 selected for training as possible astronauts in the early 1960s has died at her northern Michigan home. She was 89.
Bernice Steadman was a member of the so-called ``Mercury 13.'' NASA dropped the program, and it was 22 more years before a U.S. woman went to space.
Robert Steadman says his wife died Wednesday in Traverse City. She had Alzheimer's disease.
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