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Eileen Collins, NASA astronaut: commanding missions and making history

21 Jun 2022
Taken from the June 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Commanding missions, making history".

Andrew Glester reviews Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: the Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Eileen M Collins with Jonathan H Ward

Eileen Collins in the pilot seat of the Space Shuttle Discovery
Flying high Astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle, on day 1 of mission STS-63 at the pilot’s station of Discovery. (Courtesy: NASA)
Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot, and later command, NASA’s Space Shuttle. She logged o

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Andrew Glester hosts the Physics World Stories and The Cosmic Shed podcasts. He is also a lecturer in wildlife film and media, and science communication at the University of the West of England
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