The Tulsa Air and Space Museum will welcome Col. Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a NASA Space Shuttle, for a special event on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. Collins will headline a ...
Eileen Collins is the headline speaker at the Zonta Club of Melbourne’s 2nd Annual Reaching New Heights: Women in Space symposium on Jan. 10.
Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...
She's the astronaut who smashed through the glass ceiling. And kept on going. Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft - but despite her remarkable ...
In 1999, Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission. Also one of the first female pilots in the United States Air Force, her career has been a series of amazing ...
"The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the ...
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Eileen Collins was 12 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. “And I remember it,” she said. I do, too. I was 7, standing on the front porch of my family’s home in Gary, Indiana, and ...