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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 5 months ago

#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle. She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Shuttle after the Columbia disaster.

Watch the lift-off: https://youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory #Histodons

Eileen Collins in her orange launch suit, seated at the controls of Columbia in 1999. She's a white woman with red hair.

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