Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars by Col. Eileen M. Collins USAF

The ASF presents the largest monetary award available to United States science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students based solely on merit. In 1999, she became the first woman to command a shuttle mission. She piloted a second shuttle flight in May 1997, successfully docking the Atlantis with Mir to transfer personnel, equipment and supplies. space shuttle in 1995, serving on the orbiter Discovery for a rendezvous and docking mission to the Russian space station Mir. She was selected as an astronaut in 1990 and became the first woman pilot of a U.S. Air Force’s first female flight instructor in 1979, and for the next 11 years taught both flying and math. at the Barnes & Noble Texas A&M Bookstore.Ĭollins became the U.S. Monday through Friday, by phone at 97, or online.Ĭollins will also be signing copies of her book, “Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission,” from 1- 3 p.m. Those are available from the Memorial Student Center Box Office, open 10 a.m. The program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission. in Rudder Auditorium and is hosted by Texas A&M LAUNCH and the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF).īefore her presentation, Collins will present two ASF scholarships of up to $15,000 – one to computer engineering senior Kevin Yao and the other to materials science and engineering senior Mack Cleveland.

She served as a military instructor and test pilot, then became the first woman to pilot and later command a NASA shuttle.Ĭollins, a retired Air Force colonel, will present “Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars” Oct. Air Force in the late 1970s and 1980s, there were no women whose career paths she could follow. When Eileen Collins was launching her career in the U.S.

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars by Col. Eileen M. Collins USAF