"I knew how men would think, just by listening to my dad all those years," NASA's first female commander tells PEOPLE Astronaut Eileen Collins says her father unintentionally prepared her for a ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

They were there to listen to astronaut Eileen Collins—the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle. Collins talked about how her dreams would lead her to become a history-maker.

On this day in 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins, a former flight instructor and test pilot, becomes the first woman to pilot ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...