Captain Frederick Hauck Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

Frederick H. ( Rick) Hauck 
(Captain, U.S. Navy, Retired)
NASA Astronaut (Former)

PERSONAL DATA: Born April 11, 1941, in Long Beach, California. His parents were the late Captain and Mrs. Philip F. Hauck. During his spare time, he enjoys skiing, sailing, kayaking, tennis, and working on his 1958 Corvette. Rick is married to Susan Cameron Bruce. Together they have five children and seven grandchildren.

EDUCATION: Graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1958; received a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Tufts University in 1962 and a master of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966; graduate, U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, 1971.

MEMBERSHIPS, BOARDS, & PANELS: Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots; Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); Fellow, American Astronautical Society ( AAS); Board of Trustees, Tufts University (1987-2002, Emeritus 2003-); Board of Governors, St. Albans School (1989-95); Association of Space Explorers (Vice President, 1991-93; Board of Directors, 2000-to 2006); Technical Advisor to The Synthesis Group on America's Space Exploration Initiative (1990-91); Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), Department of Transportation (1992-99); Chair, COMSTAC Task Group on Russian Entry into Commercial Space Markets (1992); NASA Commercial Programs Advisory Committee (1991-92); 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 (1996-2002); NRC Committee on International Space Station Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management (1995-96); Chair, NRC Committee on Space Shuttle Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management (1997); Boeing Space Launch Mission Assurance Review Team (1999); External Program Assessment Team for NASA 2 nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle Program, Space Launch Initiative and Orbital Space Plane (2000-04); Chair, NRC Committee on Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Surface of Mars (2001-02); Board of Directors, Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (2003-to date); Board of Directors, AAS (1997-2000); Chair, Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers, Tufts University (1997-2002); External Visiting Committee, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University (2001); Advisory Council, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (2005-to date); Board of Directors, U.S. Space Foundation (2005-to date); NASA Advisory Council (2005-to date); Space Analyst and Commentator, NBC News (2005-to 2007).

SPECIAL HONORS: Two Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medals; the NASA Distinguished Service Medal; the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership; the Defense Superior Service Medal; the Legion of Merit; the Distinguished Flying Cross; the Air Medal (9); the Navy Commendation Medal with Gold Star and Combat V; the NASA Space Flight Medal (3); Doctor of Public Service (honoris causa) from Tufts University; National Associate of the National Academies; U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame; the Navy's Outstanding Test Pilot Award; the Presidential Cost Saving Commendation; the AIAA Haley Space Flight Award; Lloyd's of London Silver Medal for Meritorious Service; two AAS Flight Achievement Awards; the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal; the FAI Komarov Diploma (2); the Tufts University Presidential Medal, Light on the Hill Award and Distinguished Alumnus Award; the Delta Upsilon Distinguished Alumnus Award; Who's Who in America.

EXPERIENCE: Rick Hauck, a Navy ROTC student at Tufts University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and reported to the USS WARRINGTON (DD-843) where he served 20 months, qualifying as Underway Officer-of-the-Deck. 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 Russian 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 MIT the next year. He commenced flight training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, in 1966, and received his Navy wings in 1968. As a pilot with Attack Squadron 35 he deployed to the Western Pacific with Air Wing 15 aboard USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43), flying 114 combat and combat support missions.

In August 1970, Hauck joined Attack Squadron 42 as a visual weapons delivery instructor in the A-6. Selected for test pilot training, he reported to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at 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 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 14 aboard USS ENTERPRISE (CV(N)-65). 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.

NASA selected Hauck as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. He was 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 Bob 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 he 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 Dave Walker (pilot), and three mission specialists, Joe 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. Discovery completed 127 orbits of the earth before landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 16, 1984.

In March 1985 Captain Hauck became the astronaut office project officer for the integration of the liquid-fueled Centaur upper stage rocket into the shuttle. In May 1985 he was named Commander of the Centaur-boosted Ulysses solar probe mission (sponsored by the European Space Agency), scheduled to be launched in April 1986. After the Challenger accide