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New Syracuse, Beta Prime
Dec 2001
time: 00:18
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Originally posted by DRoseDARs
So much for that launch...  |
The damage has been repaired, and the launch is on! 
Since the mission commander is a native central New Yorker, we've been getting deluged with info on her. Thought I'd share:
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Eileen Collins had been picked to lead the Shuttle Discovery on one of the most closely watched space flights ever: It’s been about two-and-a-half years since the Shuttle Columbia accident.
But Colonel Eileen Collins’ love of space goes back to another crucial time for NASA: when the space program was in its infancy.
“There wasn’t much on TV back in those days other than the news,” Collins said. “I got most of my information through reading and my hometown.”
Collins grew up in the Twin Tiers. That’s the home of the National Soaring Museum.
“I never got a chance to fly gliders myself,” Collins said. “But we have a soaring field in Elmira, New York, that inspired me as a young child.”
A veteran now of three space flights, it’s a long-cry from the teacher Collins wanted to be as a high schooler in Elmira.
“In fact I did have an opportunity to teach when I was in college, I did some student teaching and assistant teaching. Some day I’m going to go back to teaching again,” Collins said.
But it wasn’t really teaching Eileen Collins was focused on as a student at Syracuse University in the late 1970’s. There was private pilot lessons she was taking, and then right after graduating in 1978 from SU, she went right off to the Air Force.
“My parents always let me know that they loved me and whatever I wanted to do in my life they would support that,” Collins said.
And her parents have supported her. Her father tells NewsChannel 9 that this is what she wanted to do.
Collins is NASA’s first woman pilot and first woman shuttle commander. And she’s also about to embank on one of NASA’s most important missions ever
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Here's to wishing the whole crew a safe trip.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:18
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So what happens if Discovery goes kaboom?
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13-07-2005 02:27
. Landing in Edwards is only in an emergency. Or are they landing at Edwards for this mission only?
) returning to Luna and going to Mars, perhaps the VentureStar program should be revisited. 
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