UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We are go for launch. MICHAEL LEINBACH: OK, Eileen, our long wait may be over. EILEEN COLLINS: The space shuttle program was riding on it. The whole American space program ...
In 1972, trailblazing British pilot Yvonne Pope Sintes took off for Glasgow with Dan Air as the UK’s first female commercial airline captain. Over 54 years later, carriers are campaigning for women to ...
For the first time, a United pilot has reached a position that has never before been held by a woman, marking a long-term trend for female aviators. A United Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner. A United ...
Eileen Collins flew into outer space four times and was the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "SPACEWOMAN") UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We are go for launch.