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.
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]
"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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