For her part, director Hannah Berryman says it was the producers who came up with the title, but it was a perfect fit.

Astronaut Eileen Collins and filmmaker Hannah Berryman discuss the new documentary SPACEWOMAN and the thrill of pushing human ...

They were there to listen to astronaut Eileen Collins—the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle. Collins talked about how her dreams would lead her to become a history-maker.

I decided I wanted to be an astronaut in fourth grade. I remember reading an article in Junior Scholastic about the Gemini program. I don’t remember consciously feeling like I couldn’t do it ...

Collins, who in addition to being an astronaut was a test pilot and a major general in the reserve of the United States Air Force, retired from NASA in 1970, just a year after the historic mission.