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In 1962, not long after John Glenn became the first American to orbit planet Earth, the squeakyclean hero testified before Congress against including women in the space program. It was already a fact of our social order, Glenn said, that they were ex ...
http://www.livefastdieyoungbook.com/useileencollins.htm
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- A Eileen Marie
Born November 19, 1956, in Elmira, New York. Married. She enjoys running, golf, hiking, camping, reading, photography, astronomy. ...
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/collins.html
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- The Encyclopedia
Throughout her career as an astronaut, Eileen Collins achieved several firsts in the history of space travel. In 1995, when she took the helm of the Discovery, she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle. A space shuttle is a manned spacecraf ...
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Collins-Eileen.html
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- A NASA Quest
U.S.A.F. Lt. Col. Eileen Marie Collins is the first woman ever selected to be a space shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a space shuttle. In the Air Force she was a T38 instructor pilot and a C141 aircraft commander. Today she has flown mor ...
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/women/ec.html
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- The Eileen Collins
Lt. Colonel Eileen Marie Collins was born in Elmira, New York on November 19, 1956. As a child, Eileen dreamed about space and of becoming a pilot. Her parents often took her to the airport to watch the planes take off and land. The Collins family wa ...
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/collins.html
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Eileen Collins earned her pilot’s license while in college.Her grades and flight experience helped her to become one of the first women to go straight from college into Air Force pilot training. She served as a pilot instructor and taught mathematics ...
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0878965.html
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- The Col Eileen
U.S.A.F. Lt. Col. Eileen Marie Collins is the first woman ever selected to be a space shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a space shuttle. In the Air Force she was a T38 instructor pilot and a C141 aircraft commander. Today she has flown mor ...
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/collins.html
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