Jul 27 1999
From The Space Library
Commander Eileen M. Collins became the first woman to "land a spaceship of any kind, anywhere," when she guided Space Shuttle Columbia to a safe late night landing at KSC in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the 12th nighttime touchdown in the Shuttle program's 95-flight history. A few hours after the landing, NASA confirmed that hydrogen fuel had leaked from one of the craft's main engines during liftoff on 23 July. Columbia's mission, lasting just five days, was the shortest planned flight in nine years.
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