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Eileen Collins

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Astronaut and United States Air Force pilot

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  • Mathpower seven, Western edition
  • Castle of dreams
  • Castle of Dreams
  • Laird of a far country
  • Shores of love

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Person
Country
GB
Active from
1951-01-30

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Quotes

  • "A leader must be collaborative and competent, and your team won’t care if you are a man or a woman".
  • "I also should credit all the women pilots before me, including the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and the Mercury 13 women who passed the difficult astronaut exams in the early 1960s".
  • "Sometimes a woman needs to show her competence before the guys “accept” her and trust her".
  • " Set a “mission” for yourself and write it somewhere where you will see it daily".
  • "I believe failure can be caused by lack of focus on that mission, or allowing too many distractions into your life".
  • "I asked my crew to be creative, to think about everything that could go wrong during the mission that no one has thought about yet and bring it to the attention of the flight control team"

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Key facts

Born
Eileen Marie Collins , ( 1956-11-19 ) 19 November 1956 (age 69) , Elmira, New York , U.S.
Education
Corning Community College ( AA ), Syracuse University ( BA ), Stanford University ( MS ), Webster University ( MS )
Rank
Colonel , USAF
Time in space
36d 7h 11m
Selection
NASA Group 13 (1990)
Missions
STS-63 , STS-84 , STS-93 , STS-114
Retirement
1 May 2006
Service years
1978–2005
Conflicts
United States invasion of Grenada
Website
https://www.eileencollins.com/

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Eileen Collins
date of birth
1956-11-19
time in space
55210
birth name
Eileen Marie Collins
name in native language
Eileen Collins
member of the crew of
STS-63
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STS-63
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Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is an American retired NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel. A flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.

A graduate of Corning Community College, where she earned an associate degree in mathematics in 1976, and Syracuse University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics in 1978, Collins was commissioned as an officer in the USAF through Syracuse's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. She was one of four women chosen for Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. After earning her pilot wings, she stayed on at Vance for three years as a T-38 Talon instructor pilot before transitioning to the C-141 Starlifter at Travis Air Force Base, California. During the U.S. invasion of Grenada in October 1983, her aircraft flew troops of the 82nd Airborne Division from (then) Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina to Grenada, and took thirty-six medical students back. From 1986 to 1989, she was an assistant professor in mathematics and a T-41 instructor pilot at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. She earned a Master of Science degree in operations research from Stanford University in 1986, and a Master of Arts degree in space systems management from Webster University in 1989. That year, she became the second woman pilot to attend the USAF Test Pilot School, graduating with class 89B.

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