The first female space commander will be featured in a new documentary.
The story of retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be retold in “Spacewoman,” a documentary coming in 2025 based on Collins’ memoir “Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars” (Arcade, 2021) co-written with space historian Jonathan Ward.
Collins, who flew four times in space, served as pilot on two space shuttle missions (STS-63 and STS-84 in February 1995 and May 1997, respectively) and commander of crew on another two spaceflights (STS-93 in July 1999, and STS-114 in July to August 2005).
The memoir, and the movie, recounts how Collins came from an “underprivileged childhood” in Elmira, New York to join the U.S. Air Force, acquiring experience in matters such as test piloting and commanding the C-141 aircraft before being selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1990. (Collins retired from NASA in 2006.)
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