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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission

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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

By: Col. Eileen M. Collins USAF (Retired), Jonathan H. Ward
Narrated by: Molly Secours
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The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time.

Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force's first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot's wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman admitted to the Air Force's elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base.

NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership.

©2021 Eileen M. Collins and Jonathan H. Ward (P)2021 Tantor Engineering Military & War Science Women Transportation Aviation Interstellar Air Force Space Military

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This is a fabulous tale - utterly ruined by a narrator with a delivery that has all the vocal excitement of an accountant reading out tax law changes. The audio editing is equally dire, but it is the delivery which is stultifyingly awful - it sounds as though she is making a first read-through with pauses in odd places and pronunciation which hurts. (Nassau instead of NASA). I may have to return this title and buy the book simply to save my ears...

Update. Well, I finished the book, but the cost to my ears was severe. I have been trying to work out how this got through the editing process. The narration delivery is so disjointed that I can only assume that the editor was incompetent or utterly disinterested in the end product. It is such a shame as the content is first-rate, and with an involved narrator, I would give it ten stars. As it is, I can only urge others to buy the book and read it yourself rather than suffer this shoddy offering.

Spoiled by a bored narrator.

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