Eileen Collins Quotes
- The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to…
- I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis…
- I don’t think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove,
- Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing thisâ€. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for…
- I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.
- We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We…
- My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle
- Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of…
- The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it…
- I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident