Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership.Įileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base.
She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. Now in paperback, the life story of a world-famous astronaut who was a trailblazer for women and is a role model todayĮileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots.
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