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Eileen Collins (1956) Científicas. Fue la primera mujer en pilotear un Transbordador espacial de la NASA, y también la primera en liderar una misión como comandante. Eileen Collins, la niña que quería ser piloto, reunió 38 días y 20 minutos en el espacio exterior, antes de su retiro. Nació en Elmira, Nueva York.
Eileen Collins is an American astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. She was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was selected as an astronaut in 1992 and flew four Space Shuttle missions between 1995 and 2005. Collins was born in Elmira, New York, on November 19, 1956.
17 de ago. de 2020 · Collins became an astronaut in 1991 and served as a pilot or commander on four spaceflights before retiring from NASA in 2006. Eileen Collins is featured in Firsts, a multimedia project, for being ...
11 de mar. de 2021 · Today, we feature one prominent Irish-American: Eileen Collins. On February 3, 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, flying the Discovery to the Russian Mir space station. On July 23, 1999, she became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. STS-93 was launched with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory payload.
Eileen Collins. Eileen Collins was launched into history when she became the first American woman to pilot a spacecraft. Of this trailblazing mission, Collins said, “This mission marks the first baby steps in international space cooperation.”. Collins worked hard and overcame adversity every inch of the way on her journey to space.
Eileen Collins ble uteksaminert i 1978 med en bachelorgrad i matematikk og økonomi fra Syracuse University. I 1979 tok hun oppdrag i United States Air Force gjennom OTS og ble utdannet som pilot. I perioden 1979-1982 jobbet hun som flyinstruktør på T-38, mellom 1983 og 1985 var hun kommandør og flyinstruktør på en Lockheed C-141 ...
2 de fev. de 1995 · Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Collins became the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle and the first woman to command a shuttle mission.
