#eileen collins

[dallasnothouston]

Copy, Moon Joy 🌕

To all the women and animals who who aren't here, The Artemis soars for you 🌙

[mindblowingscience]

New film 'Spacewoman' to celebrate NASA's Eileen Collins, 1st woman space commander and pilot

"It is more than my personal journey through life's challenges."

The first female space commander will be featured in a new documentary. The story of retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be retold in "Spacewoman," a documentary coming in 2025 based on Collins' memoir "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars" (Arcade, 2021) co-written with space historian Jonathan Ward. Collins, who flew four times in space, served as pilot on two space shuttle missions (STS-63 and STS-84 in February 1995 and May 1997, respectively) and commander of crew on another two spaceflights (STS-93 in July 1999, and STS-114 in July to August 2005).

Continue Reading.

[higherentity]

[lunastation]

Eileen Collins, Commander, suited up before STS-114.

[celebratingamazingwomen]

Eileen Collins (b. 1956) is a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female pilot and commander of a Space Shuttle.

She was an instructor pilot and assistant professor in mathematics at the US Air Force Academy when she was selected to be an astronaut. Her first space flight took place in 1995, and two years later she became the first female Shuttle Pilot, an achievement for which she received a Harmon Trophy.

[harrypotterhousequotes]

RAVENCLAW: "We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go." –Eileen Collins

[paigecofferillustration]

A late birthday present for @ladypepperofdavenshire of her character’s Charlie and Eileen (Aveline) dancing. I just love her modern AU twist on them, I had to draw it <3

[theadmiralslegion]

Star Pilots | Eileen Collins, American astronaut

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the space shuttle.

Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle when Discovery completed an eight-day mission in February 1995. She made history again in 1999, as the first woman to command a space shuttle, the Columbia, for mission STS-93.   You can read more about her here and here.