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WABI Archives: WABI speaks to Rick Hauck about his career as an astronaut
11 Nov 2025 01:49 GMT
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South Bay History: Astronaut and San Pedro High grad Dr. Anna Fisher became the first mother to fly in space
22 Dec 2025 21:28 GMT
… Space Shuttle Discovery mission included Frederick H. Hauck, commander, seated. Standing, … . 1984 photo. (NASA / Wikimedia Commons)
NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher, circa … January 1978. (NASA / …
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Space Shuttle Columbia Lifts Off From NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1981
12 Nov 2025 20:01 GMT
… Dryden Flight Research Facility, now NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Facility … consoles in Mission Control, with astronaut Frederick H. “Rick” Hauck serving as capcom. Shortly … NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, in California, taken by astronaut …
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True story behind one of ‘most terrifying images ever’ taken by NASA
12 Aug 2025 07:47 GMT
… the most terrifying photos in NASA's history has … consisted of commander Frederick H. 'Rick' Hauck, pilot David M … 6 satellite.
NASA later explained: "After Hauck and Walker piloted … just seven days, the astronauts returned home.
Gardner sadly …
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Terrifying Footage Shows Untethered Astronaut Capturing a Satellite
21 Mar 2025 17:06 GMT
… video and photographs showing a NASA astronaut flying untethered miles above Earth … correct orbits, so NASA decided to send astronauts in spacesuits and Manned … Joseph Allen. Seated is commander Frederick Hauck. Astronaut Joseph Allen captured the Palapa …
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When American astronauts returned to space
29 Sep 2024 06:28 GMT
… Americans back to space.
Frederick “Rick” H. Hauck, who served as the … astronauts trained for over a year to serve as NASA’ … for survival for the astronauts during emergencies, be it … above Discovery.
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Tasked mainly with overcoming many …
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1983 US astronaut Sally Ride returns
24 Jun 2024 00:26 GMT
… become an astronaut in 1977 after she saw a Nasa advertisement … she met her husband, fellow astronaut Steve Hawley.
Before blast- … Ride and Robert Crippen were Rick Hauck, John Fabian and Dr … remained an astronaut until 1987, when she resigned from Nasa and …
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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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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. …