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‘Spacewoman’ Doc About First Woman to Command a Space Shuttle Mission Screens at CPH:DOX While NASA Axes Pledge to Land a Woman on the Moon
The director of 'Spacewoman,' about the Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, had its European premiere at CPH:DOX.
Hannah Berryman’s documentary “ Spacewoman ” chronicles the life and career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft in an era where many men still thought there was no place for women in space. The film is timely, given the fact that in February, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered NASA to purge diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks specifically targeting women in leadership. Her background and family situation in the present continues to be woven through, hopefully giving the whole story added emotional weight – so that you come out both with an understanding of an incredible woman, and with thoughts about the nature of human risk-taking in general, and especially in space.
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