astronaut

astronaut

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Colour image of the astronaut Eileen Collins.

Photograph of Eileen Collins, an American astronaut. She was selected as an astronaut in 1992 and first piloted the space shuttle STS-63 in 1995. She retired in 2006 after spending a total of 38 days, 8 hours and 10 minutes in outer space.

This image was downloaded from the NASA Great Images database <http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001177.html>`__.

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