{"id":224575,"date":"2025-11-05T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-visit-from-astronaut-eileen-collins"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:07:48","slug":"a-visit-from-astronaut-eileen-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-visit-from-astronaut-eileen-collins","title":{"rendered":"A Visit From Astronaut Eileen Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Visit From Astronaut Eileen Collins\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8MjmHnbzShg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We had the honor of welcoming Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a Space Shuttle, to Florida Tech\u2019s campus for a special screening of her new documentary, \u2018SPACEWOMAN.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was an inspiring evening celebrating perseverance and leadership. Before the event, Collins also met with a small group of students to discuss space exploration and her experiences as a trailblazer in NASA\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to our campus community and friends of Florida Tech for joining us for this special event!<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Florida Institute of Technology: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatech.edu\/\">https:\/\/www.floridatech.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the honor of welcoming Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a Space Shuttle, to Florida Tech\u2019s campus for a special screening of her new documentary, \u2018SPACEWOMAN.\u2019 It was an inspiring evening celebrating perseverance and leadership. Before the event, Collins also met with a small group of students to discuss space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}