Claudie Haignere, France’s first woman astronaut and a former government minister, was hospitalized after a suicide attempt, Agence France-Presse said. Haignere, 51, also the first European woman to board the International Space Station in 2001, was found late yesterday at her home where she had overdosed on pills, AFP said, citing an unidentified government official. She was admitted, still conscious, to Paris’s Val de Grace military hospital, AFP said. In 1996, Haignere flew to Russia’s Mir...
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