‘Spacewoman’ Review: Mission Driven

Hannah Berryman’s engrossing documentary on Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle pilot and commander, focuses on managing pride and fear.
SpaceNews

Eileen Collins on what it takes to become Space Shuttle Commander

In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, host David Ariosto speaks with Eileen Collins, retired NASA astronaut, Air Force colonel and the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and to command a ...
NBC Connecticut

Commander of First Flight of Space Shuttle Challenger Dies

Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85. Weitz died at his retirement ...
The Washington Post

40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster

Spectators in the VIP area at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, watch as the space shuttle Challenger lifts off Jan. 28, 1986. The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. (Bruce ...