Eileen Collins on what it takes to become Space Shuttle Commander

In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, host David Ariosto speaks with Eileen Collins, retired NASA astronaut, Air Force colonel and the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and to command a Space Shuttle mission. She is the subject of a new documentary, SPACEWOMAN, directed by Hannah Berryman, which is based on Eileen’s book “Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars” and hitting select theatres nationwide March 20. They discuss life lessons that lent themselves to a career in space and the military, the public and private challenges of leading a crew on the Space Shuttle, and the roles that humans versus artificial intelligence ought to play during space missions.

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