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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 20, 2007

LOMBARD, Ill. - The 90-year-old mother of a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station died Wednesday when a train struck her vehicle, police said.

A preliminary investigation showed that Rose Tani, the mother of astronaut Daniel M. Tani, stopped behind a school bus pausing at a train crossing, Raymond Byrne, police said. She drove around the bus, bypassing the lowered crossing gate, he said.

The train struck Tani's vehicle on the passenger side and pushed it down the tracks before stopping. Paramedics took Tani to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Daniel Tani, 46, has made several journeys into space. He was a flight engineer on the Space Shuttle Discovery when it took off on Oct. 23 and was scheduled to remain on the space station until Jan. 8.

The Associated Press

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