Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle commander in 1995.
Collins, Eileen
American Shuttle Commander, Pilot, and Mathematician 1956-
Space shuttle Columbia (STS-93) lifted off in July 1...
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Eileen Marie Collins
1956-
American pilot and astronaut who accomplished many significant firsts for women involved in the space race. A colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Collins was the first female pil...
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Eileen Collins (born 1956) became the first woman to pilot a U.S. space shuttle and the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.On February 4, 1995, at 12:22 a.m. in Cape Canaveral, Florida, thousa...
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Today is Saturday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2007. There are 331 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On February 3, 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rock...
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Washington (dpa) - NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is a true Miss
Universe.
The 41-year-old American of Indian heritage took-off with the
Space Shuttle Discove...
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. space shuttle Discovery
linked up with the International Space Station Thursday on a
mission to prepare the orbital outpost for new European and
Japanese laboratories. Wit...
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle
Discovery linked up with the International Space Station
Thursday on a mission to prepare the orbital outpost for new
European and Japanese laboratories....
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As two women circled overhead in charge of their respective spacecraft, the first female shuttle commander, the first female space tourist and other female trailblazers gathered Friday to encourage...
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NASA began 2006 having flown only a single space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster three years earlier. After Friday's landing of space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts, the U.S...
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Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Friday after some last-minute suspense over which landing site to use, closing out a year in which NASA finally got cons...
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Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S. astronaut reached a ...
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Today is Sunday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2008. There are 332 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 3, 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rock-'n'-r...
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Collins, Eileen
Eileen Marie Collins
Eileen Collins
Today in history - Feb. 3
