Spacewoman Movie

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Spacewoman Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command an American spacecraft. Born on the other side of the tracks in upstate New York, she smashed many glass ceilings in the US Air Force and at NASA in her career, culminating in four increasingly dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. With an incredible set of archival materials, intimate interviews, and a moving score by Marcelo Zarvos, Hannah Berryman’s nail-biting film shares the emotional journey experienced by Eileen’s family, and explores what level of risk is acceptable in human endeavor.

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00:00So Eileen, what makes a good astronaut?

00:05I'm proud to congratulate Colonel Eileen Collins

00:07on becoming the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.

00:14Commander.

00:15Eileen Collins and her baby girl standing up for mommy.

00:20She would tell me to hope for the best, but expect the worst.

00:24I've been flying since I was 19 years old.

00:27I asked her out 10 minutes after I met her.

00:30I said, you don't waste any time, buddy.

00:33An astronaut is a person who does not fear problems,

00:36but yet sees problems as challenges and, frankly, exciting.

00:42My mom had a childhood where there was quite a bit of violence.

00:46My dad would come home drunk and get into a fight with my mom.

00:50It was unpredictable.

00:51That was the scariest thing about it.

00:53I learned, don't show that you're afraid.

00:56That way you control any element of fear that might affect you.

01:00We had an accident.

01:05Frankly, we've had two accidents.

01:07Those were moms and dads, and they all died.

01:10There were people that wanted to shut down the shuttle program,

01:13but there was no way I was going to quit that mission.

01:15As astronauts, we live on the edge of danger.

01:20I couldn't believe how much anxiety I had built up.

01:23Mommy's the best!

01:24A seven-year-old version of myself was like, mom is going to die in space.

01:29I don't need to be ready for that.

01:31I was willing to take that risk.

01:34Would a woman crack under pressure?

01:36There was a large part of the community that didn't just think she couldn't do it,

01:39but were probably actively rooting against her.

01:43She once told me, you had to be better than the men to be equal.

01:46That's exactly what I want to do.

01:48Three, two, one.

01:52I think until we are tested,

01:55we don't know what we're capable of.

01:59We don't know what we are적인.

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