Eileen Collins
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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
STS-84
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STS-84 was a crewed spaceflight mission by Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
Mir viewed from the flight deck of Atlantis
Left to right – Seated: Linenger, Precourt, Foale; Standing: Clervoy, Collins, Lu, Kondakova, NoriegaSpace Shuttle program← STS-83 (83)STS-94 (85) →
Comet Hale–Bopp imaged by a shuttle crew member
Atlantis lands at the end of the STS-84 mission.