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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission BOTY_2025 an unhappily married suburban motherThe long awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Forces first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilots wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their