Eileen Marie Collins 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
Collins in 1998
With her T-38 when she graduated from flight school at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma in August 1979
With an F-4 Phantom II at Edwards Air Force Base on graduation from the USAF Test Pilot School in June 1990
Near a NASA T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center in Houston