Eileen Collins First Woman to Pilot Space Shuttle, February 3, 1995
Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Date: February 3, 1995
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