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

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, a former fighter pilot and

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astronaut. He piloted

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mission

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and commanded STS-51-A 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

Winchester, Massachusetts Winchester is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located 8.2 miles (13.2 km) north of downtown Boston as part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. It is also one of the wealthiest municipalities in Massachusetts. The population ...

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, was a

vice admiral who commanded battleships 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

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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 from the

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* 1971: Graduated U.S. Naval Test Pilot School

Military experience

Hauck, a

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student at Tufts University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and reported to the destroyer , where he served 20 months as communications officer and

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officer. In 1964, he attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 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 Naval Aviator, receiving his aviator wings in 1968. As a pilot with Attack Squadron 35 he deployed to the Western Pacific with

Carrier Air Wing Fifteen Carrier Air Wing Fifteen (CVW-15) is a former United States Navy aircraft carrier air wing that was decommissioned on March 31, 1995. It was previously known as Carrier Air Group Fifteen (CVG-15) before 1963 before being renamed in December of th ...

aboard the aircraft carrier , flying 114 combat and combat support missions in the

A-6 Intruder The Grumman A-6 Intruder is an American twinjet all-weather attack aircraft developed and manufactured by American aircraft company Grumman Aerospace and operated by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. It was designed in response to a 1957 r ...

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

test pilot A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques.Stinton, Darrol. ''Flying Qualities and Flight Testin ...

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 Naval Air Test Center'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 w ...

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 Bo ...

and

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

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 Chief of Naval Operations. 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 CAPCOM 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, John Fabian,

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 ...

, 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 Edwards Air Force Base,

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, on June 24, 1983. Hauck was spacecraft commander for the second mission of ''Discovery'' on mission STS-51-A, 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 ( Syncom 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 Centaur upper-stage rocket into the Shuttle. In May 1985 he was named commander of the Centaur-boosted ''Ulysses'' solar probe mission, STS-61-F (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 Johnson Space Center 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,

Society of Experimental Test Pilots The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is an international organization that seeks to promote air safety and contributes to aeronautical advancement by promoting sound aeronautical design and development; interchanging ideas, thoughts and suggest ...

* 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 ( COMSTAC),

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(1992–99) * Chair, COMSTAC Task Group on Russian Entry into Commercial Space Markets (1992) * NASA Commercial Programs Advisory Committee (1991) * Department of Commerce U.S. Space Commerce Mission to Russia (1992) * NASA Mission Review Task Group (Space Salvage) (1992) * General Dynamics 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) *

National Research Council National Research Council may refer to: * National Research Council (Canada), sponsoring research and development * National Research Council (Italy), scientific and technological research, Rome * National Research Council (United States), part of ...

(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 Legion of Merit * 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 NASA Distinguished Service Medal * 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 astrona ...

(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

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Haley Space Flight Award *

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Silver Medal for Meritorious Service * two AAS Flight Achievement Awards * the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (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. T ...

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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