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First female shuttle pilot

First female shuttle pilot
Who
Eileen Collins
What
First
Where
United States (Cape Canaveral Space Force Station)
When
11 February 1995

The first female Space Shuttle pilot was Eileen Collins (USA), who was selected as the pilot of STS-63 mission to the Mir space station. The Shuttle Discovery lifted off on 3 February 1995, and returned to Earth on 11 February 1995.

Colonel Eileen Collins joined the NASA astronaut corps from the US Air Force, where she was a test pilot. She would go on to pilot STS-84 in 1997 and later became the first commander of a Space Shuttle mission on STS-93. Her last spaceflight was as commander of STS-114 in 2005.