Fuel cells were leaking during the eight minute flight to orbit. It forced a lower orbit and the flight was close to being forced into a never before performed emergency landing. The captain's voice was strong, confident, and resolute in the reports to Houston. And Colonel Eileen Collins, the first woman to captain a spacecraft, performed perfectly. Robbed of the opportunity to show Eileen Collins how proud we are of her and how much she means to us.
Women are essentially practical because they've always had to be.
From the dawn of time it's been our job to see that both ends meet. And women are much more realistic than men, particularly when it comes to public questions. Of course, having had the vote for such a short time is a distinct advantage, for we have no inheritance of political buncombe. Copyright 2000 by Irene Stuber. More than 20,000 women's biographies and thousands of facts of herstory have been gathered by istuber and used in the more than 900 episodes of Women of Achievement and Herstory that have been emailed to subscribers over the past ten years.