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Eileen Collins
American astronaut and pilot (born 1956)
Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is an American retired NASAastronaut and Air Forcecolonel. A flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.
A graduate of Corning Community College, where she earned an associate degree in mathematics in 1976, and Syracuse University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics in 1978, Collins was commissioned as an officer in the USAF through Syracuse's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. She was one of four women chosen for Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. After earning her pilot wings, she stayed on at Vance for three years as a T-38 Talon instructor pilot before transitioning to the C-141 Starlifter at Travis Air Force Base, California. During the American invasion of Grenada in October 1983, her aircraft flew troops of the 82nd Airborne Division from (then) Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina to
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March is both Women’s History Month and Irish American Heritage Month. Today’s post comes from Thomas Richardson, an archives technician at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Irish have had a profound influence on the history of the United States. During Irish-American Heritage Month, communities and cultural organizations across the country celebrate their collective heritage, ancestry, and accomplishments. Today, we feature one prominent Irish-American: Eileen Collins.
On February 3, 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, flying the Discovery to the Russian Mir space station. On July 23, 1999, she became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. STS-93 was launched with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory payload. The newest space telescope since the Hubble would capture X-rays not yet seen in deep space images. The mission was a major success, capturing astonishing images and new data. Collins’s final space flight was commanding the “Return to Flight” mission, the first s
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Eileen Collins
Eileen Marie Collins (d. 19 Kasım 1956, Elmira, New York), emekli bir NASAastronotu ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Hava Kuvvetleri albayı. Eski bir askeri eğitmen ve test pilotu olan Collins, Space Shuttle'ın ilk kadın pilotu ve ilk kadın komutanıydı.[1] Çalışmalarından dolayı kendisine birkaç madalya verildi. Albay Collins, uzayda 38 gün 8 saat 20 dakika kaldı. Collins, USAA'nın yönetim kurulu üyesi olarak hizmet etti ve 1 Mayıs 2006 tarihinde emekli oldu.
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[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]Collins New York, Elmira'da doğdu. Ailesi James E. ve Rose Marie Collins'di. İrlanda Amerikan 2016 Şeref Salonunda yaptığı bir konuşmaya göre, ataları 1800'lerin ortalarında Amerika'ya geldi ve Pennsylvania]] ve Elmira, New York'a yerleşti. Üç kardeşi var. Çocukken Kız İzcileri'ne katıldı[2] ve hem uzay uçuşuna hem de pilot olmaya ilgi duyduğunu ifade etti.
1974'te Elmira Serbest Akademisi'nden mezun olduktan sonra, Corning Community College'e devam etti ve 1976'da matematik / fen alanında ön lisans derecesi aldı. 1978'de Syracuse Üniversit
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