Rick Douglas Husband (1957 - 2003)

Born 12 Jul 1957 in Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Died 1 Feb 2003 at age 45 in Texas, United States

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Biography

Rick Husband is Notable.

Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) (Colonel, USAF) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot.

Defense Distinguished Service	Meritorious Service	National Defense Service

1982	Married Evelyn June Neely on 27 Feb 1982 in Randall, Texas, USA[1]
1990	Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Fresno State University.
1994	Selected by NASA in Astronauts Group 15. [2]
1999	Flew on Discovery STS-96 as Pilot with Kent Rominger, Daniel Barry, Ellen Ochoa, Tamara E. Jernigan, Julie Payette and Valery Tokarev. Awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, his first of 2. [3]
	STS-96	NASA Space Flight
2003	Flew on Columbia STS-107 as Commander with William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon. Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the NASA Space Flight Medal, his second of 2. [3] Died when the Columbia broke apart during reentry.	NASA Distinguished Service
	STS-107	NASA Space Flight
2004	Awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. [4]	Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Obituary

Columbia's commander, Rick Husband, aged 45, was a US air force colonel recruited to the space programme in 1994. He made his first flight in 1999; last week's was his second. Like many of the current generation of astronauts, his fascination with space exploration was inspired by the first moon landings of 1969.

Born in Amarillo, Texas, Husband took a BSc in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1980, and earned the outstanding engineering student award. After training as a USAF pilot, in 1981 he transferred to an F-4 squadron, becoming an F-4E instructor pilot in 1985. In 1987, he became a test pilot based at Edwards air force base, California.

Five years later, he went to the aircraft and armament evaluation establishment at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, as an exchange test pilot with the RAF. He logged more than 3,800 hours of flight time in more than 40 different types of aircraft before joining Nasa, in December 1994, for astronaut training at the Johnson space centre, Houston.

Before he first went into space, as pilot on shuttle flight 96 Discovery (May 27 to June 6 1999), Husband worked with design teams experimenting with space shuttle upgrades, and studies to return to the moon and travel to Mars. During his first mission, the crew performed the first docking with the international space station (ISS) and delivered four tons of logistics and supplies in preparation for the arrival of the first crew to live on the station early next year.

He was married with two children.

Rick Douglas Husband, born July 12 1957; died February 1 2003. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011," Ancestry.com.Ancestry Record 8795 #6999862
2. ↑ Wikipedia List of Astronauts, by Year
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Agency Awards Historical Recipient List
4. ↑ Congressional Space Medal of Honor Recipients
5. ↑ Obituary

See also:

• Wikipedia: Rick Husband
• Wikidata: Item Q346671, en:Wikipedia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107
• Find A Grave: Memorial #7135753
• Ancestry Profile