I know this isn't exactly a "space" topic but it touches on aviation so it's close. I met Moya Lear back at Oshkosh '96. She was a lady in every sense of the word.

From today's AVweb newsletter:

Moya Lear, widow of plane designer and inventor Bill Lear, passed away at her home in Verdi, Nev. The 86-year-old philanthropist lost her battle against cancer, along with congestive heart failure, last Wednesday. Aside from her philanthropy work and public-speaking events, Lear was awarded numerous honorary doctorates and was inducted into the halls of fame of the Women in Aviation Pioneers, the United States Achievement Academy and Nevada Business Leaders...