{"id":6179,"date":"2026-07-23T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:20:44","slug":"eileen-collins-became-first-woman-commander-of-space-vehicle-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6179","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Collins Became First Woman Commander of Space Vehicle in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/Commander_Eileen_Collins_-_GPN-2000-001177.jpg\/192px-Commander_Eileen_Collins_-_GPN-2000-001177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"167\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eileen Collins<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Eileen Collins became the first female commander of a space vehicle, <i>Columbia<\/i>, in 1999<\/strong>. During the mission she and the crew deployed the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which provides data on black holes and exploding stars. Older children could visit a website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/vision\/space\/preparingtravel\/Eileen_Collins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eileen Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Collins became the first female commander of a space vehicle, Columbia, in 1999. During the mission she and the crew deployed the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which provides data on black holes and exploding stars. Older children could visit a website at: Eileen Collins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4764,826,825,823,824,5737],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4764","tag-chandra-x-ray-observatory","tag-columbia","tag-eileen-collins","tag-first-female-commander-of-a-space-vehicle","tag-july-23","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24797,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions\/24797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}