Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck (pronounced "Howk"; born April 11, 1941) is a retired

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in the

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, a former fighter pilot and

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. He piloted

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mission

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and commanded

STS-51-A STS-51-A (formerly STS-19) was the 14th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the second flight of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on November 8, 1984, and landed just under eight days later on ...

and

STS-26 STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter ''Discovery''. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 29, 1988, and landed four days later on October 3, 1988. STS-26 was decla ...

Personal data

He was born April 11, 1941, in

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, but considers

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and

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to be his hometowns. His parents were the late Captain and Mrs. Phillip F. Hauck. His maternal grandfather,

Olaf M. Hustvedt Vice Admiral (United States), Vice Admiral Olaf Mandt Hustvedt (23 June 1886 – 22 December 1978) was a senior officer of the United States Navy. He saw service in World War I and World War II, operating in both the Battle of the Atlantic and th ...

, was a

vice admiral who commanded

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s during

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.Broad, William J., "Back Into Space," ''The New York Times Magazine'', July 3, 1988.
/ref> Hauck is married to Susan Cameron Bruce.

Education

* 1958: Graduated from St. Albans School in

* 1962: Received a

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degree in

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. While attending Tufts he joined the

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fraternity. * 1966: Received a

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degree in

Nuclear Engineering Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of breaking down atomic nuclei ( fission) or of combining atomic nuclei (fusion), or with the application of other sub-atomic processes based on the principles of n ...

from the

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* 1971: Graduated

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Military experience

Hauck, a

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student at Tufts University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and reported to the

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, where he served 20 months as communications officer and

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officer. In 1964, he attended the U.S.

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, for studies in mathematics and physics and for a brief time in 1965 studied the Russian language at the

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in Monterey. Selected for the Navy's Advanced Science Program, he received a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology the next year. He commenced flight training at the

Naval Air Station Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United State ...

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in 1966, and was designated a

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, receiving his aviator wings in 1968. As a pilot with Attack Squadron 35 he deployed to the Western Pacific with

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aboard the

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, flying 114 combat and combat support missions in the

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. In August 1970, Hauck joined Attack Squadron 42 as a visual weapons delivery instructor in the A-6 Intruder. Selected for

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training, he reported to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at

NAS Patuxent River Naval Air Station Patuxent River , also known as NAS Pax River, is a United States naval air station located in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Patuxent River. It is home to Headquarters, Naval Air Sys ...

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in 1971. A 3-year tour in the

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's Carrier Suitability Branch of the Flight Test Division followed. During this period, Hauck served as a project test pilot for automatic carrier landing systems in the RA-5 Vigilante, A-6 Intruder,

A-7 Corsair II The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV). The A-7 was developed during the early 1960s as replacement for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. Its design was ...

F-4 Phantom The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.Swanborough and Bow ...

and

F-14 Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic aircraft, supersonic, twinjet, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experi ...

aircraft and was team leader for the Navy Board of Inspection and Survey aircraft carrier trials of the F-14. In 1974, he reported as operations officer to Commander,

Carrier Air Wing Fourteen Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14), was a United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. Mission To conduct carrier air warfare operations and assist in the planning, control, coordination and integr ...

aboard . On two cruises he flew the A-6, A-7, and F-14 during both day and night carrier operations. He reported to Attack Squadron 145 as Executive Officer in February 1977. In May 1989 he became Director, Navy Space Systems Division, in the Office of the

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. In this capacity he held budgeting responsibility for the Navy's space programs. Captain Hauck left military active duty on June 1, 1990.

NASA experience

NASA selected Hauck as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. He was assistant Crimson team

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for the first Space Shuttle mission re-entry. His first spaceflight was as pilot for

, the seventh flight of the

, which launched from

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, on June 18, 1983. The crew included

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(spacecraft commander), and three mission specialists,

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Sally Ride Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts V ...

, and

Norm Thagard Norman Earl Thagard, M.D. (born July 3, 1943; Capt, USMC, Ret.), is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and ca ...

. This was the second flight for the orbiter ''Challenger'' and the first mission with a 5-person crew. During the mission, the STS-7 crew deployed satellites for Canada (ANIK-C2) and

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(Palapa B-1); operated the Canadian-built

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(RMS) to perform the first deployment and retrieval exercise (with the

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(SPAS-01)); and with Crippen conducted the first piloting of the orbiter in close proximity to a free-flying satellite (SPAS-01). Mission duration was 147 hours before landing on a lakebed runway at

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, on June 24, 1983. Hauck was spacecraft commander for the second mission of ''Discovery'' on mission

, which launched on November 8, 1984. His crew included

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(pilot), and three mission specialists, Joseph Allen, Anna Fisher, and

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. During the mission, the crew deployed two satellites, Telesat Canada's Anik D-2, and Hughes' LEASAT-1 (

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IV-1). In the first space salvage mission in history, the crew also retrieved for return to Earth the

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and

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VI satellites. STS-51-A completed 127 orbits of the Earth before landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 16, 1984. In March 1985 Captain Hauck became the Astronaut Office project officer for the integration of the liquid-fueled

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upper-stage rocket into the Shuttle. In May 1985 he was named commander of the Centaur-boosted ''Ulysses'' solar probe mission,

STS-61-F STS-61-F was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 15 May 1986 using ''Challenger''. It was canceled after ''Challenger'' was destroyed earlier that year. Crew Mission objectives The main objective of STS-61-F was to deploy ...

(sponsored by the European Space Agency). It was set to launch in a tight launch window in May 1986. After the ''Challenger'' accident this mission was postponed, and the Shuttle-Centaur project was terminated. In August 1986, Captain Hauck was appointed NASA associate administrator for external relations, the policy advisor to the

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for congressional, public, international, inter-governmental, and educational affairs. He resumed his astronaut duties at the

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in early February 1987. Hauck was spacecraft commander of ''Discovery'' on

, the first flight to be flown after the ''Challenger'' accident. The mission launched on September 29, 1988. The flight crew included the pilot, Richard Covey, and three mission specialists,

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, Mike Lounge, and George Nelson. During the four-day mission, the crew deployed the

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(TDRS-C) and operated eleven mid-deck experiments. ''Discovery'' completed 64 orbits of the Earth before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 3, 1988. Hauck has logged over 5,500 flight hours, 436 in space.

Post-NASA experience

In October 1990, he joined AXA Space (formerly INTEC) as

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and

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, and on January 1, 1993, assumed responsibilities as

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. AXA Space is a world leader in providing property and casualty insurance for the risk of launching and operating satellites. He retired from AXA Space in April 2005.

Memberships, boards, and panels

* Fellow,

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* Fellow,

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council of ...

(AIAA) * Board of Trustees, Tufts University (1987-) * Board of Governors, St. Albans School (1989–95) *

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(Vice President, 1991–93; Board of Directors, 2000-) * Technical Advisor to The Synthesis Group on America's Space Exploration Initiative (1990–91) * Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (

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United States Department of Transportation The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the secretary of transportation, who reports directly to the President of the United States and ...

(1992–99) * Chair, COMSTAC Task Group on Russian Entry into Commercial Space Markets (1992) * NASA Commercial Programs Advisory Committee (1991) *

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U.S. Space Commerce Mission to Russia (1992) * NASA Mission Review Task Group (Space Salvage) (1992) *

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Atlas Failure Review Oversight Boards (1992, 1993) * U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on National Space Transportation Policy (1994–95) * Chair, NASA External Independent Readiness Review Team for Second Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission (1995–97) *

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(NRC) Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (1996- ) * NRC Committee on International Space Station Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management (1995–1996) * Chair, NRC Committee on Space Shuttle Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management (1997) * Boeing Space Launch Mission Assurance Review Team (1999) * External Requirements Assessment Team for NASA 2nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle Program (2000- ) * Chair, NRC Committee on Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Surface of Mars (2001-) * Executive Committee, Astronaut Scholarship Foundation * Board of Directors,

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(AAS) (1997–2000) * Chair, Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers, Tufts University (1997- ) * External Visiting Committee, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford Univ. (2001) * Member, Space Foundation Board of Directors (2005- )

Special honors

* Two

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s * the

Defense Superior Service Medal The Defense Superior Service Medal (DSSM) is a military decoration of the United States Department of Defense, which is presented to United States Armed Forces service members who perform superior meritorious service in a position of significant ...

* the

Legion of Merit The Legion of Merit (LOM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued to members of the eight ...

* the Distinguished Flying Cross * the

Air Medal The Air Medal (AM) is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces. It was created in 1942 and is awarded for single acts of heroism or meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight. Criteria The Air Medal was establish ...

(9) * the

Navy Commendation Medal The Commendation Medal is a mid-level United States military decoration presented for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service. Each branch of the United States Armed Forces issues its own version of the Commendation Medal, with a fifth ...

with Gold Star and

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* the

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* the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership * the

NASA Space Flight Medal The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. According to its statutes, it is awarded "for significant achievement or service during individual participation as a civilian or military astronau ...

(3) *

Astronaut Hall of Fame The United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, located inside the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Heroes & Legends building on Merritt Island, Florida, honors American astronauts and features the world's largest collection of their personal memor ...

* the Navy's Outstanding Test Pilot Award * the Presidential Cost Saving Commendation * the

AIAA The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council of ...

Haley Space Flight Award *

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Silver Medal for Meritorious Service * two AAS Flight Achievement Awards * the

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale The (; FAI; en, World Air Sports Federation) is the world governing body for air sports, and also stewards definitions regarding human spaceflight. It was founded on 14 October 1905, and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It maintai ...

(FAI)

Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...

Gold Medal * the FAI Komarov Diploma (2) * the Tufts University Presidential Medal * the Tufts University Light on the Hill Award * the Delta Upsilon Distinguished Alumnus Award * Who's Who in America

References

External links

Spacefacts biography of Frederick Hauck
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