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NASA Fast Facts
01 Aug 2023 22:31 GMT
… start of NASA.
October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury … support systems. The astronauts and NASA engineers on the … 1983 – Astronauts Robert L. Crippen and Frederick H. Hauck pilot Space … board are killed: Commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool …
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This Week @NASA: New Earth Information Center, Atmosphere Around a Rocky Exoplanet
26 Jun 2023 06:43 GMT
… June 26. Credit: NASA
Showcasing NASA’s new Earth Information … Utah desert in late September.
Astronauts of the STS-7… Robert L. Crippen (commander), Frederick H. Hauck (pilot); rear row: John … female astronaut into space on June 18, 1983. Credit: NASA
40 …
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40th anniversary: Winchester’s Hauck piloted space shuttle
19 Jun 2023 21:51 GMT
… born in Long Beach, California, astronaut Frederick (Rick) Hauck lived in Winchester for much … ’t.
In 1978, NASA selected Hauck as an astronaut candidate. He became a … Service Medals, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the NASA Medal for Outstanding …
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‘It sure is fun’: Sally Ride was first American female astronaut in space 40 years ago
18 Jun 2023 13:31 GMT
… commander Robert Crippen, pilot Frederick Hauck, and fellow mission specialists … Ride also was the youngest astronaut.
Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS- … be a part of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class. She had … middle and Norm Thagard and Rick Hauck are in the rear. …
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How astronaut diversity changed for the better in a single NASA class recounted in 'The New Guys' book
05 Feb 2023 12:43 GMT
… era of the 1978 astronaut class. Certainly, NASA had diversified somewhat from … individual images of the 1978 astronaut class at NASA. From left to right … . David Griggs, Terry J. Hart, Frederick H. (Rick) Hauck, Steven A. Hawley, Jeffrey A …
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Hitting the Books: NASA's Class 8 broke color barriers and glass ceilings alike
12 Feb 2023 16:37 GMT
… follows the exploits of NASA's Astronaut class of 1978 — … choice for families. Single astronauts like Sally Ride, Kathy … , except the blond, mustachioed Rick Hauck, a US Navy commander who … of Astronaut Group 7, who had been transferred to NASA after …
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NASA Fast Facts
06 May 2021 15:46 GMT
… start of NASA.
October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury … support systems. The astronauts and NASA engineers on the … 1983 – Astronauts Robert L. Crippen and Frederick H. Hauck pilot Space … board are killed: Commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool …
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Former astronaut has fond memories of his NASA days
12 Aug 2019 17:28 GMT
WINTER HARBOR — For Rick Hauck, the sky was not … He became an astronaut candidate in 1978 after NASA announced it was … confidence that he and other astronauts had.
The pyrotechnics used … Challenger tragedy, Hauck recalls his time as an astronaut fondly.
“It …
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50 astronauts, in their own words
20 Jun 2019 03:42 GMT
… - Rick Hieb
(Flew three space shuttle missions for NASA between … So I can still remember Rick (Hauck) being asleep in the …
- Andrew Feustel
(Current NASA astronaut; veteran of three spaceflights … .
- Christina Koch
(NASA astronaut serving on the International …
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Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut
21 Jun 2018 12:11 GMT
… ;s first female astronaut
Ride joined NASA as part of … first female astronaut
Ride's official NASA portrait in … Frederick Hauck.
Photos: Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut … 's first female astronaut
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger …