Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft – but despite her remarkable achievements, not everyone will know her name.
Now a feature-length documentary called Spacewoman, which chronicles her trailblazing career, looks set to change that.
"As the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, I worked very hard at that because I didn’t want people to say, ‘Oh look, the woman has made a mistake’. Because it wasn’t just about me, it was about the women to follow me," she says.
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