TULSA, Okla. — The first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle was in Tulsa on Thursday. Eileen Collins was at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum for their new 'Women in Aviation' exhibit, where ...
She's the astronaut who smashed through the glass ceiling. And kept on going. Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft - but despite her remarkable ...
As vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK's Propulsion Systems business, Charlie Precourt oversees such vital national programs as development of the solid rocket booster that will help ...
Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...
It is not every day that I can sit down and talk with a former NASA astronaut and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, but that is exactly what happened when I recently met and talked ...
Portrait of Eileen Collins, photographed in San Antonio, TX, November 3, 2016. ‘This isn’t just about me.’ Collins, a then STS-114 mission commander, at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly indeed will command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and his wounded ...