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Eileen Collins at a parachute ejection briefing

Eileen Collins at a parachute ejection briefing
Eileen Collins at a parachute ejection briefing Eileen Collins, then a U.S. Air Force major and NASA pilot astronaut candidate, attends a parachute ejection briefing at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma in July 1990. The session was part of a three-day survival training course — an early step in her journey to become the first woman to pilot and command a Space Shuttle mission. NASA