Richard Roeper welcomes pioneering astronaut Colonel Eileen Collins to discuss the documentary Spacewoman, directed by Hannah Berryman, and Collins’ appearances at Wayfarer Theaters in Highland Park on March 30. Collins reflects on being the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle, the personal costs of sharing family history in the film, and why the shuttle program ended in 2011 in favor of safer capsule designs with escape systems.

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