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Eileen M. Collins, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, was the first woman to be the pilot on a NASA space shuttle flight. She recently spoke with Air & Space Quarterly senior editor Diane Tedeschi.
Collins wasn’t the first woman in space, but she was first in just about everything else
Pamela Melroy, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, is now NASA’s deputy administrator. During her career as an Air Force pilot, Melroy logged more than 6,000 flight hours, serving in both Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After NASA selected her as an astronaut candidate in 1994, she would be assigned to three space shuttle missions, and she is one of only two women to ever command a space shuttle. Melroy recently spoke about her long career in aerospace with Jennifer Levasseur, a curator in the National Air and Space Museum’s department of space history.
Hey, if you’re really crushing any one of those things, then probably everything else
An interview with Chris Reddersen, a restoration specialist at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
trying to figure out how to rig an aircraft for display in a gallery—and no one else
The mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Melitta von Stauffenberg aircraft over the skies of Germany has finally been solved.
If that was so, someone else must have shot down Melitta, I reasoned Still, something
The Air and Space Quarterly Interview with F-4 aviator Porter Halyburton about his time as a POW in Hanoi during the Vietnam War.
I went over that list every single day, and I went over it with anybody else I ran
An Interview with Capt. Theresa Claiborne, the first African American woman pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
was that the command structure said: “Hey, she’s no more important than anyone else
Astronauts headed to Mars and beyond won’t be able to depend on Earth for a quick response in the event of a medical emergency.
But every liter of IV fluid you take with you is a liter of something else you have
If you think bungee jumping is scary, look at what Joe Kittinger did.
“They did things that no one else had done before,” says Lantry.
Aviation enthusiasts are scouring the country for the vintage airplane kits of their youth.
Back then, no one knew what everyone else had.
Crop-dusting was an often hazardous occupation, until a maverick entrepreneur and pilot designed the right airplanes for the job.
The ag pilot has more freedom than anyone else in the air.”
