28 years ago today, #EileenCollins launches in #SpaceShuttle Discovery as the pilot on #STS63 — the first female to do so — to rendezvous with #Mir #SpaceStation
Four years later she became the first female #NASA commander of a spacecraft, this time the Columbia, during #STS93 (which deployed the #ChandraXRay Observatory)
On her last mission #STS114 — again aboard Discovery, but this time to #ISS — she’s the first person to fly a shuttle in a full 360° pitch maneuver