Irish America magazine - April/May '03 issue: Michael Flatley, Patrick Murphy, Jennifer Connelly, Edward Kennedy, Nuala O'Faolain, Irish supermodels Jane Bradbury and Caitriona Balfe, Cork Choral Festival, Re-Imagining Ireland, Paintings of Ireland

When Colonel Eilleen Collins, 46, launches into space as commander of the next shuttle mission, she will be taking with her not just the memory of the seven astronauts who died aboard the Columbia last February, all of whom she knew personally, but the knowledge that the future of manned space travel may well depend on a successful and safe mission.

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