Biographies of Astronaut and Cosmonaut Candidates

Sherr

Lynn Beth

USA

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Source: ABCMediaNet.com

Personal data

Birthdate:  04.03.1942
Birthplace:  Philadelphia / Pennsylvania
Marital status:  widowed
Children:  
Selection date:  14.05.1986
Position:  PSP
Status:  Ret. ??.??.1986

Additional information

Graduated from Wellesley College, where she now serves as a trustee, with a Bachelor of Arts; one of fourty semi finalists in the "Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following the Challenger tragedy); candidate from New York; in 1986 working for ABC News. American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20. She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York City, then staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV. In 1977, she was the guest host of the MacNeil–Lehrer Report while Robert MacNeil was absent, and has hosted a number of PBS specials. In 1983–85 she was a reporter/editor for Condé Nast. In 2008, she left the television network ABC after working with them for 31 years. She is the author of Outside the Box: A Memoir, published in September 2006, which chronicles her life on and off TV, including her husband's death from cancer as well as her own battle with colon cancer.

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