Wife, Mother and Shuttle Commander

Image: Collins Portrait, Collins in Space
Info: Collins Interview, Collins Bio

To the idiot academics who continue to suggest women have a harder time mastering science and mathematics: Meet Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins.
And she's a well-rounded person too. Check this out from the above Bio link:


* Pilot, Discovery STS-63--Collins became the first female Shuttle pilot during this 1995 mission, which included a rendezvous with the Russian Space Station Mir.
* Pilot, Atlantis STS-84--This 1997 mission transferred supplies to the Mir Space Station.
* Commander, Columbia STS-93--Collins became the first female Shuttle commander on this 1999 mission, which included the deployment of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Collins holds the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. She is also a wife and mother. She met her husband, Pat, while they were flying U.S. Air Force C-141s together. They were married in U.S. Air Force Academy's chapel. When she's not busy preparing for a space mission, she enjoys running, golf, hiking, camping, reading, photography and astronomy.

Sounds like she's got enough frequent flyer miles to earn a trip to the Moon. Who knows, maybe that's next. Oh, she's also got a fist-full of advanced degrees to go with that impressive flight record.

Meet some other women astronauts and scientists at Woodmansee.com

And pass it along to every little girl you know, before they start to believe what the academics so often shovel.