CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The last time Eileen Collins rode a space shuttle to orbit, an electrical short knocked out the primary computers for two of the ship's three main engines and a hydrogen leak nearly left the shuttle without enough gas to reach orbit.
Collins, sitting in the commander's seat for the first time, successfully oversaw the delivery of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory into orbit, then landed the shuttle Columbia at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 1999.
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