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Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel. A former flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.
Jun 26, 2024 · Eileen Collins was the first female commander of a space shuttle mission. Quick Facts. STS-114, the last mission Collins flew, was dubbed “Return to Flight” as the first shuttle mission to fly after the Columbia tragedy. Eileen Collins was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1990.
Oct 4, 2003 · On her last mission, Eileen Collins became the first (and currently only) female Shuttle commander. On her next, she will command the historic STS-114 “Return to Flight” mission, the first after the Columbia tragedy.
Eileen Collins, American astronaut, the first woman to pilot (1995) and, later, to command (1999) a U.S. space shuttle. She was selected as an astronaut in 1990 and remained at NASA until retiring in 2006. Learn more about Collins’s life and career, including her four space flights.
May 23, 2018 · Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle in 1999; and in July 2005 she commanded the much-anticipated launch of the first space shuttle since the disastrous Columbia voyage in 2003, during which all seven astronauts were killed on board.
Oct 17, 2019 · Eileen Collins in space in 1995, when she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle. NASA via Getty Images. “Houston, Columbia. Wheels down,” said Col. Eileen Collins, 20 years ago,...
Eileen Collins, (born November 19, 1956, Elmira, New York, U.S.), American astronaut, the first woman to pilot and, later, to command a U.S. space shuttle. Collins’s love of airplanes and flying began as a child. At age 19 she saved money earned from part-time jobs and began taking flying lessons.
Jun 21, 2022 · Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot, and later command, NASA’s Space Shuttle. She logged over 38 days in space and, as the commander of mission STS-93 in 1999, her legacy includes deploying the Chandra X-Ray Space Observatory.
Eileen Collins was the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle! Lt. Colonel Eileen Marie Collins was born in Elmira, New York on November 19, 1956. As a child, Eileen dreamed about space and of becoming a pilot.
Mar 11, 2021 · Today, we feature one prominent Irish-American: Eileen Collins. On February 3, 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, flying the Discovery to the Russian Mir space station. On July 23, 1999, she became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
