Eileen Collins was the first female flight instructor for the U.S. Air Force and the first woman to both pilot and command an American space shuttle. She paved the way for women in aviation and space travel, proving that women could not only enter this field but succeed. While she was ...
"Now personally, I'd be okay with flying a rookie astronaut to the Moon," former astronaut Eileen Collins, who flew and commanded Space Shuttles in the 1990s and 2000s, told AFP. "But if you have enough astronauts who have already flown, they know how they're going to react in space....
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Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven: Directed by Richard Speight Jr.. With Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Rob Benedict. Sam, Dean and Castiel's continued search for a way to defeat Chuck leads them to unexpected places and toward unlikely al
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Politics isn't the only field where women have broken through barriers, of course. In 1944, Ann Baumgartner Carl became the first female test pilot. In 1953, aviator Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to break the sound barrier. And in 1999, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first ...
Aaron Rodgers, Jessica Chastain and Morgan Freeman are among many stars with ties to community colleges. Notable people who took classes at a community college Community collegecan be a stepping stone toward a higher degree or career path – even for well-known athletes, Hollywood actors and ...
East / John Witty / 林碧笙 / 凯西·伯克 / Neil Seiler / Jack Kine / 丹尼斯·泰特 / Jim Tyson / Roy Brent / Norman Claridge / Dallas Cavell / 彼得·克雷兹 / Tomasz Borkowy / Janet Ellis / 埃文·索伦 / 托尼·康杰 / Bella Emberg / 汤姆·亚当斯 / Eileen Way / Tutte Lemkow / 诺曼...
Eileen Collins is the first woman ever chosen to be a spaceship pilot. She is also the first woman to command(指挥) a spaceship. Today she has flown more than 5, 000 hours in more than 30 kinds of airplanes.Talking about high school, she said, “I began reading all kinds of books ...
East / John Witty / 林碧笙 / 凯西·伯克 / Neil Seiler / Jack Kine / 丹尼斯·泰特 / Jim Tyson / Roy Brent / Norman Claridge / Dallas Cavell / 彼得·克雷兹 / Tomasz Borkowy / Janet Ellis / 埃文·索伦 / 托尼·康杰 / Bella Emberg / 汤姆·亚当斯 / Eileen Way / Tutte Lemkow / 诺曼...