Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia disaster ...
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Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.