+First female space shuttle commander_Famous Girl Scouts First Female Space Shuttle Commander Lt Col Eileen Collins. Nearly 100 years ago, Girl Scouts' founder Juliette Gordon Low was of the belief that girls needed a place where they could build their courage and confidence.

The Girl Scout alumnae includes many successful women in many different fields.

An amazing 64% percent of today's women leaders in the United States (civic, corporate, political, etc.) were once Girl Scouts!

In fact, some of the most powerful women in the world were once part of a troop?

Lt Col Eileen Collins

On her first spaceflight, the STS-63 mission of Discovery in February 1995, Lt Col Eileen Collins became the first female space shuttle pilot, a second-in-command position behind the commander. After another flight, the May 1997 voyage of Atlantis, Collins became the first female space shuttle commander on the STS-93 mission of the shuttle Columbia.

source: postchronicle