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Eileen Collins Quotes

born 1956 United States

Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel. A former flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.

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"I believe failure can be caused by lack of focus on that mission, or allowing too many distractions into your life".

"A leader must be collaborative and competent, and your team won’t care if you are a man or a woman".

"Sometimes a woman needs to show her competence before the guys “accept” her and trust her".

" Set a “mission” for yourself and write it somewhere where you will see it daily".

"It’s hard for the astronauts to meet everybody because we have responsibilities in the office and families we need to see, so we try to spread out".

"Informal learning is more difficult because you don’t always know what you need to know"

"I also should credit all the women pilots before me, including the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and the Mercury 13 women who passed the difficult astronaut exams in the early 1960s".

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eileen Collins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.