Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander

Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbias middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander. Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, where she was a T-38 instructor pilot until 1982. She continued her career as 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/image...
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