First female commander, phobic of roller coasters, leads next shuttle mission By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Sunday, May 01, 2005 SPACE CENTER, Houston - Sometime in July, Eileen Collins, commander of the next space shuttle mission, will strap herself into a rocketship loaded with explosive fuel and fearlessly shoot from zero to 1,000 mph in a minute flat. Just don't ask her to get on a roller coaster. Collins - the first woman to pilot a shuttle and now the first female commander - will preside over NASA's return to space more than two years after the Columbia tragedy. Known...