Frederick Hauck

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Rick Hauck
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Born
Frederick Hamilton Hauck

(1941-04-11) April 11, 1941 (age 82)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
Education Tufts University (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Air Medal
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank Captain, USN
Time in space
18d 3h 7m
Selection NASA Group 8 (1978)
Missions STS-7
STS-51-A
STS-26
Mission insignia
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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.

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Personal data

He was born April 11, 1941, in Long Beach, California, but considers Winchester, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. to be his hometowns. His parents were the late Captain and Mrs. Phillip F. Hauck. His maternal grandfather, Olaf M. Hustvedt, was a United States Navy 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 Naval ROTC student at Tufts University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and reported to the destroyer USS Warrington, where he served 20 months as communications officer and 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 Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, 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 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, flying 114 combat and combat support missions in the A-6 Intruder. In August 1970, Hauck joined Attack Squadron 42 as a visual weapons delivery instructor in the A-6 Intruder. Selected for test pilot training, he reported to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland 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, F-4 Phantom and F-14 Tomcat 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 aboard USS Enterprise. 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 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. [7] He was assistant Crimson team CAPCOM for the first Space Shuttle mission re-entry. His first spaceflight was as pilot for STS-7, the seventh flight of the Space Shuttle, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 18, 1983. The crew included Robert Crippen (spacecraft commander), and three mission specialists, John Fabian, Sally Ride, and Norm Thagard. 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 Indonesia (Palapa B-1); operated the Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System (RMS) to perform the first deployment and retrieval exercise (with the 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 Discovery on mission STS-51-A, which launched on November 8, 1984. His crew included David M. Walker (astronaut) (pilot), and three mission specialists, Joseph Allen, Anna Fisher, and Dale Gardner. 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 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 Shuttle-Centaur upper-stage rocket. 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 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 STS-26, 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, David Hilmers, Mike Lounge, and George Nelson. During the four-day mission, the crew deployed the 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 of 2023, Hauck published his memoir To Mach 25 and Home.

Memberships, boards, and panels

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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. ↑ Hauck, Rick (2023). To Mach 25 and Home (1st ed.). Self-Pub (published December 1, 2023). p. 62. ISBN   979-8869608468.
  4. ↑ Hauck, Rick (2023). To Mach 25 and Home (1st ed.). Self-Pub (published December 1, 2023). p. 238. ISBN   979-8869608468.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "NASA Advisory Council, Frederick H. (Rick) Hauck, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Astronaut". NASA. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  6. ↑ Hauck, Rick (2023). To Mach 25 and Home (1st ed.). Self-Pub (published December 1, 2023). p. 64. ISBN   979-8869608468.
  7. ↑ Bagby, Meredith (2023). The New Guys (1st ed.). Harper Collins (published February 7, 2023). p. 46. ISBN   978-0063141971.
  8. 1 2 "FREDERICK H. (RICK) HAUCK (PRONOUNCED HOWK) (CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY, RETIRED)" (PDF). NASA. June 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  9. ↑ Jones, Tom (2023). Space Shuttle Stories (1st ed.). Smithsonian Books (published October 31, 2023). p. 80. ISBN   978-1588347541.
  10. ↑ matt (May 26, 2010). "Former NASA Astronaut Rick Hauck Joins Cianbro Board of Directors - AGC Maine". agcmaine.org. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  11. ↑ Hauck, Rick (2023). To Mach 25 and Home (1st ed.). Self-Pub (published December 1, 2023). pp. 240, 243. ISBN   979-8869608468.

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