Eileen M. Collins, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, was the first woman to be the pilot on a NASA space shuttle flight. She recently spoke with Air & Space Quarterly senior editor Diane Tedeschi.
You spent 20 years nurturing your dream of becoming an astronaut.
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worked for the United Space Alliance as a Space Shuttle Systems Instructor, training astronaut
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