Frederick Hauck

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Rick Hauck
NASA astronaut
RankCaptain, USN
Time in space
18d 3h 7m
SelectionNASA Group 8 (1978)
MissionsSTS-7
STS-51-A
STS-26
Mission insignia
RetirementApril 3, 1989

Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck (pronounced "Howk"; born April 11, 1941) is a retired captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.

Personal data

He was born April 11, 1941, in

vice admiral who commanded battleships during World War II.[1] As a child, Hauck was suggested to skip first and second grade. However, his mother felt concerned about the age difference between him and his fellow classmates and instead only had him skip first grade.[2] Hauck married his first wife, Dolly Bowman, in 1962.[3] The couple had two children. The couple split on amicable terms in the late 1980s.[4] Hauck is married to Susan Cameron Bruce.[5]

Education

Military experience

Hauck, a

Combat Information Center officer. Hauck was involved in the search for the submarine USS Thresher when it sank off the coast of Cape Cod in 1963.[6] 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 Defense Language Institute
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

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 made an early impression on his fellow astronauts in his first days. Being one of the new TFNGs to sit at the table during his first morning astronaut meeting. Some thought he was either a fool or the most confident among the new candidates.

Shuttle Pallet Satellite (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, California
, on June 24, 1983.

Hauck was spacecraft commander for the second mission of

Palapa B-2 and Westar VI satellites. STS-51-A completed 127 orbits of the Earth before landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 16, 1984.[8]

In March 1985 Captain Hauck became the Astronaut Office project officer for the integration of the liquid-fueled

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

NASA Administrator 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

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C) and operated eleven mid-deck experiments. While in command of the flight, Hauck and the rest of the crew took time to honor those lost on Challenger. Hauck offered words of honor to his fallen friends, "Dear friends, we have resumed the journey that we promised to continue for you. Dear friends, your loss has meant that we could confidently begin anew. Dear friends, your spirit and your dreams are still alive in our heart."[9]
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.[8]

Post-NASA experience

In October 1990, he joined AXA Space (formerly INTEC) as president and chief operating officer, and on January 1, 1993, assumed responsibilities as chief executive officer. AXA Space provides property and casualty insurance for the risk of launching and operating satellites. He retired from AXA Space in April 2005. Hauck was added to the board of directors for Cianbro, a Maine-based construction company, in 2010.[10]

After his divorce from Dolly Bowman, Hauck began dating Susan Bruce, a former Tufts student he knew during his senior year. They married in 1993. Hauck inherited three stepdaughters from Susan's previous marriage.[11]

In December 2023, Hauck published his memoir To Mach 25 and Home.

Memberships, boards, and panels

  • Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots
  • Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • Board of Trustees, Tufts University (1987-)
  • Board of Governors, St. Albans School (1989–95)
  • Association of Space Explorers (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), United States Department of Transportation (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
    (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, American Astronautical Society (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

References

  1. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/03/magazine/back-into-space.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Broad, William J., "Back Into Space," The New York Times Magazine, July 3, 1988.
  2. ^ Hauck, Rick (2023). To Mach 25 and Home (1st ed.). Self Published (published December 1, 2023). p. 238.
  3. ISBN 979-8869608468
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  4. ISBN 979-8869608468
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  5. ^ a b c d "NASA Advisory Council, Frederick H. (Rick) Hauck, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Astronaut". NASA. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  6. ISBN 979-8869608468
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  7. ISBN 978-0063141971
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  8. ^ a b "FREDERICK H. (RICK) HAUCK (PRONOUNCED HOWK) (CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY, RETIRED)" (PDF). NASA. June 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  9. ISBN 978-1588347541
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  10. ^ matt (May 26, 2010). "Former NASA Astronaut Rick Hauck Joins Cianbro Board of Directors - AGC Maine". agcmaine.org. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  11. ISBN 979-8869608468
    .

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