Based on what you read in “Eileen Collins—NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander to Lead Next Shuttle Mission,” which option best describes the author’s primary purpose for creating this piece? options:

To inform readers about the accomplishments of Eileen Collins and to let Collins share her own thoughts on those accomplishments

To persuade readers that NASA and the federal government must begin to recruit more female astronauts as they did in Eileen Collins’s time

To describe for readers the experiences and sensations that Eileen Collins had while she was in space

To entertain readers with a story about how Collins’s decision to become an astronaut was the result of a chance encounter she had while in the Air Force