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There are 5 quotes matching Eileen Collins in the collection:
There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fiancée. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.
Jeffrey S. Ashby
Space Shuttle pilot on STS-93, on flying under Eileen Collins’ command, 1999.
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940’s to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, ‘Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.’
Col. Eileen Collins USAF
Television interview 100 Years of Great women, on ABC with Barbara Walters, 30 April 1999.
I’m honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don’t really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don’t need to.
Col. Eileen Collins USAF
First female Space Shuttle commander, 24 June 1999.
[My daughter] Bridget thinks everybody’s mommy flies the space shuttle.
Col. Eileen Collins USAF
First female Space Shuttle commander. Press interviews, 7 July 1999. Quoted in her 2021 book Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars.
I don’t take crazy risks. I’m afraid to get on a roller coaster, I really am. It’s dumb. I have no control over the thing once I’m on it.
Eileen Collins
Test pilot, astronaut, space shuttle commander, interview in the Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2005.
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