Eileen Collins will be first female Shuttle commander
THE WHITE HOUSE is expected today to name Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle, as the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission. Collins is U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who has flown twice as Shuttle pilot, first on STS-63 in February 1995. She also piloted the Shuttle...
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