page_title: Patricia Robertson
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Patricia Robertson / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Two crewmembers of STS-118 onboard ISS with photo tributes, Teacher in Space Barbara Morgan (who had been the backup to Christa McAuliffe for STS-51L) and Tracy Caldwell. The photo they are holding is of Clayton Anderson and Sunita Williams of ISS Expedition 15. Anderson, their classmate from Astronaut Group 17, had been slated to launch to ISS with their shuttle mission, STS-118, but got moved up to STS-117. Taped to the wall behind them is a tribute to Patty Hilliard Robertson, another Group 17 classmate, who tragically died from a plane crash which she was piloting. Next to her photo and nametag (Patty H. Robertson) is a tribute to STS-107 with a photo of the crew.NASA photo ID: S118-E-09265 (s118e09265)
context_page_description: Patricia Consolatrix Hilliard Robertson was an American physician and a NASA astronaut. She died in a plane crash the year before she would have flown in the International Space Station.
context_section_description: She died May 24, 2001 in Houston from burn injuries sustained in the crash of a private plane at Wolfe Air Park, Manvel, Texas on May 22, 2001; she was 38 years old. She was living at Homer City and she was scheduled to fly in the International Space Station in the following year.
caption: Robertson's Astronaut Group 17 classmates Barbara Morgan and Tracy Caldwell pose in a tribute photo onboard ISS during STS-118 with a photo of Robertson on the wall behind them with her NASA nametag.  Adjacent is a tribute to the STS-107 crew who perished 19 months after Robertson.  Caldwell holds a photo of fellow astronauts Clay Anderson and Sunita Williams.
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