Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins was a female astronaut mentioned by Kim Kronotska when Tom Braudy, with the mind of his ten-year-old self, proclaimed that girls could not be astronauts. Kim also mentioned Pamela Ann Melroy. (AUDIO: Memory Lane)

Behind the scenes
Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle in 1995, and then the first female commander of a shuttlecraft in 1999. She worked for NASA.