Our first guest in the Diversity Speaker series will be retired Astronaut Pilot, Eileen Collins. 

In 1990, Eileen Collins was only the second woman to graduate as a test pilot and be selected as a NASA astronaut. She became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle mission during the Discovery's rendezvous with the Mir space station in 1995. By 1999, she had logged 419 hours in space and was given command of the space shuttle Columbia, another first for a woman.

When the space shuttle Columbia blasted off on July 23, 1999, pilot Eileen Collins became NASA's first female shuttle commander. Collins had logged 419 hours in space by the time she was chosen by NASA to become its first female shuttle commander.  The shuttle Columbia, under Collins' command, made history, when it blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to the deployment of a $1.5 billion telescope into earth's orbit.

BEFORE THE SHOW CUPCAKES & COCOA WILL BE SERVED FROM 10:30 - 11:00 AM IN THE HATFIELD LOBBY

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