艾琳·柯林斯，发现号飞行员
Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995.
Selected by NASA in January 1990, Collins became the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle and the first woman to command a shuttle mission. Over four missions—STS-63 Discovery, STS-84 Atlantis, STS-93 Columbia, and STS-114 Discovery—she logged over 537 hours in space. Highlights of her missions include the Chandra X-Ray Observatory deployment, scientific experiments, and evaluation of new flight safety procedures.
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1995年2月2日，发现号航天飞机点火过程中，前宇航员艾琳·柯林斯坐在飞行员位置上。
1990年1月，柯林斯被nasa选中，成为第一位航天飞机女飞行员和第一位指挥航天飞机任务的女性。在四次任务中（STS-63发现号、STS-84亚特兰蒂斯号、STS-93哥伦比亚号和STS-114发现号），她在太空中飞行了537个小时。她的任务重点包括钱德拉X射线天文台的部署、科学实验和新飞行安全程序的评估。
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