NASA Art on Tour

A traveling exhibit from the space agency's right brain.

  • By Rebecca Maksel
  • AirSpaceMag.com, March 09, 2010
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Eileen Collins, Annie Leibovitz, photograph, 24 x 20 inches, 1999

“Leibovitz photographed Eileen Collins of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, during training for the STS-93 mission in 1999. Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a space shuttle mission. She flew four missions in all before retiring from the agency in 2006.”


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