In 1999, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.
On July 23, 1999, a historic moment unfolded in the annals of space exploration as the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying with it the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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