Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eileen Collins

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Eileen Collins at the commander's station on Space Shuttle Columbia during the first day of STS-93. This was her third space flight and the first of two missions as commander.
Reason
Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a Space Shuttle and the second to command any space mission on STS-93 which launched on 23 July 1999. She is pictured here on the first day of flight at the commander's station.
Articles in which this image appears
Eileen Collins, STS-93, Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
NASA
  • @Adam Cuerden: Impressive indeed! But in 1995, the camera cost US$35,600! See: Kodak_DCS_400_series - My own Canon bought in 2000 for about $2000 only had a 2 Mpix sensor... back then, the color balance was very similar to this, and the other digital cameras at the time. Now, they all are significantly better; photos taken with my current 24 Mpix, $1000 Canon are well-nigh perfect in that respect. Better Bayer filters, perchance? --Janke | Talk 17:43, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Eileen Collins (S93-E-5033, 1999-07-24).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:22, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]