![]() ![]() NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. What a read!"-Tom HanksĮileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. Her book with Jonathan Ward is a grand collection of simple, yet sensational moments she experienced- in Outer Space!-and in much that led to her getting there. ![]() “Given the chance, I would long ponder trading places with Eileen Collins. These books are signed by Collins exclusively for ShopAFA- the only current retailer of the signed copies. ![]() Own a signed copy of Eileen Collins' book Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars. Collins, USAF (Retired) with Jonathan Ward. Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Col. ![]()
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