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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 ...

NASA历史上的本周:哈勃太空望远镜第三次维修任务——1999年12月19日

This week in 1999, space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-103, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Over the course of three planned extravehicular activities, the STS-103 crew restored Hubble to working order and upgraded some of its systems, allowing the then decade-old observatory to get ready to b...