Robert Crippen
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Robert Crippen

Capt Robert L. Crippen
Born 1930s.
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Biography

Father: Herbert Wesley Crippen
Mother: Ruth Cynthia Andress

Robert Laurel "Bob" Crippen (born September 11, 1937), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and former astronaut for the United States Department of Defense and for NASA.

1937 Born in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, USA.
1960 Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas.
1966 Selected by USAF in USAF Group 2. [1]
1969 Selected by NASA in Astronauts Group 7. [2]
1972 Awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. [3]
NASA
Exceptional
Service
1981 Flew on Columbia STS-1 as Pilot with John Young. Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, his first of 4, and the NASA Space Flight Medal, his first of 4. [3]
NASA
Distinguished
Service
STS-1
NASA
Space
Flight
1983 Flew on Challenger STS-7 as Commander with Frederick Hauck, John Fabian, Norman Thagard and Sally Ride. Awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, his second of 4. [3]
STS-7
NASA
Space
Flight
1984 Flew on Challenger STS-41-C as Commander with Dick Scobee, Terry Hart, James van Hoften and George Nelson. Awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, his third of 4. [3]
STS-41-C
NASA
Space
Flight
* Flew on Challenger STS-41-G as Commander with Jon McBride, Kathryn Sullivan, David Leestma, Paul Scully-Power, Marc Garneau and Sally Ride. Awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, his fourth of 4. [3]
STS-41-G
NASA
Space
Flight
* Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
Distinguished
Flying Cross
Defense
Meritorious
Service
1985 Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, his second of 4. [3]
NASA
Distinguished
Service
1988 Awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, his third of 4. [3]
NASA
Distinguished
Service
1990 Retired from the Navy as Captain.[4]
1992 Director, Kennedy Space Center.
1993 Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, his fourth of 4. [3]
NASA
Distinguished
Service
1995 Left NASA, became Vice President, Simulation Systems, Lockheed Martin.
1996 President, Thiokol Propulsion.
2001 Awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame. [5]
2006 Awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the NASA Public Service Medal. [3]
Congressional
Space Medal
of Honor

Sources

  1. Wikipedia List of Astronauts, 1966
  2. Wikipedia List of Astronauts, 1969
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Agency Awards Historical Recipient List
  4. Crippen- Robert L.
  5. Hall of Fame Bio

See also:

  • Wikipedia: Robert Crippen
  • Wikidata: Item Q315737, en:Wikipedia help.gif
  • Ancestry Profile
  • "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VDDJ-MDN : 1 January 2015), Robert Laurel Crippen, 11 Sep 1937; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
  • "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYTM-TZV : accessed 18 December 2017), Robert Crippen in household of W Herbert Crippen, Ville Platte, Police Jury Ward 1, Evangeline, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20-1, sheet 18B, line 79, family 412, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1400.

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