25 years ago, #STS93 Space Shuttle Columbia launch made history with #ChandraTelescope and Eileen Collins as 1st female space shuttle commander. https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/former-astronauts/eileen-m-collins/eileen-collins-broke-barriers-as-americas-first-female-space-shuttle-commander/ #NASA #pilot #avgeek #spacegeek #space #history

Eileen Collins Broke Barriers as America’s First Female Space Shuttle Commander https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/former-astronauts/eileen-m-collins/eileen-collins-broke-barriers-as-americas-first-female-space-shuttle-commander/ #NASA #EileenMCollins #FormerAstronauts #NASAHistory #STS93 #WomenAtNASA #WomenSHistoryMonth

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

#ThisDayInSpace #space