STS-114
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STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT on its 31st flight on July 26, 2005. The launch, 907 days
Discovery performing the first ever rendezvous pitch maneuver during STS-114
Back (L-R): Robinson, Thomas, Camarda, Noguchi Front (L–R): Kelly, Lawrence, CollinsSpace Shuttle program← STS-107STS-121 →
STS 114 day before launch
July 26: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launch.
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
STS-114
…Spacecraft Space Shuttle Discovery Launch mass 121,483 kilograms (267,824 lb) Landing mass 102,913 kilograms (226,884 lb) Crew Crew size 7 Members Eileen M. Collins James M. Kelly Soichi Noguchi Stephen K. Robinson Andrew S. W. Thomas Wendy B. Lawrence Charles J. Camarda Start of mission Launch date July 26, 2005…
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