Frederick Hamilton Hauck (1941-2025)

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Frederick Hamilton Hauck (11.04.1941-06.11.2025)

Frederick Hamilton Hauck skończył dziś 82 lata.

Jest 119. człowiekiem w kosmosie.

Odbył 3. loty kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 018d 03g 09m 11s:

18.06.1983-24.06.1983 STS-7 Challenger/F-2 006:02:24:07
08.11.1984-16.11.1984 STS-51A Discovery/F-2 007:23:44:56
29.09.1988-03.10.1988 STS-26 Discovery/F-7 004:01:00:08

Był pierwszym pilotem w programie STS, który pochodził z naboru z 1978 roku.
Dowodził misją STS-26 Discovery (Return to Flight).

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/hauck_frederick.pdf?emrc=270671

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/hauck_frederick.htm
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/nac/members/hauck-bio.html
http://www.astronautix.com/h/hauck.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/h/hauck-f.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00119.htm
http://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/hauck-frederick-hamilton.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/register/514.htm
http://www.april12.eu/usaastron/hauck119en.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hauck
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hauck

https://www.lib.cas.cz/space.40/ASTRON/USA/HAUC-FH.HTM

http://www.collectspace.com/collection/autographs-hauck.html
http://www.collectspace.com/sightings/sightings-hauck.html
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1645849431403646992

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Edward Holley-Gorecki meets Astronaut Frederick (Rick) Hauck


Comments from former astronauts following shuttle disaster


STS-26 STA Training (Hauck)


STS-26: The Return to Flight [Mission Highlights Resource Tape]

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An Astronaut’s View on the Moon Landing
by Francis Storrs July 19, 2019

Frederick Hauck, A62, talks about watching Neil Armstrong, his own three journeys in space, and his hope for a future mission to Mars


Five astronauts pose for a photo during their Space Shuttle Challenger mission in June 1983. Astronaut Frederick Hauck, A63, talks about the Moon landing fifty years ago, meeting Neil Armstrong, and his hope for a future mission to Mars. Photo: ART Collection / Alamy Stock Photo

Ever since he was a young man, Frederick H. “Rick” Hauck, A62, H07, was fascinated by space exploration. In May of 1961, when Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to reach space, Hauck was just finishing up his junior year at Tufts—he’ll never forget listening to every word of the radio broadcast in Miller Hall. He wondered if he could ever do something like that.
https://now.tufts.edu/2019/07/19/astronauts-view-moon-landing

From Navy to NASA: an astronaut's life. For his family, it's meant more time spent at home
By Keith Henderson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor March 7, 1985

A job as a space shuttle astronaut something of a breather? From the family's point of view, that's not far from the truth, according to Dolly Hauck, wife of shuttle pilot and commander Frederick Hauck. ``Actually, we looked on going to NASA as a chance to have Rick at home more than he would have been had he stayed in the Navy,'' she says.
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0307/hnasa.html

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/HauckFH/HauckFH_11-20-03.htm
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/HauckFH/HauckFH_3-17-04.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/02/09/i-get-to-take-a-whole-navy-family-into-space-by-proxy/81b07338-9b1c-4806-a5ef-c140b6fab2bd/

https://www.astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/frederick-h-rick-hauck/
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/former-astronaut-frederick-hauck-acknowledges-the-warm-response-to-his-introduction-as-a-inductee-into-the-u-s-astronaut-hall-of-fame/SwFJpEvxn6mv4g

2) 5:27 AM · Dec 20, 2023

Nouvelle lecture à venir : les mémoires de Rick Hauck : pilote de STS-7 et Commandant de STS-51A et STS-26
par Nancy Shohet West
ISBN-13: 979-8869608468

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1737328790164935150

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8:05 AM · Apr 11, 2023

11 avril
Joyeux anniversaire (82) à Rick Hauck 🎂🎂🎂
Il a été pilote / Commandant de 3 missions de la navette spatiale parmi les plus mythiques (STS-7 / 51A et 26)
Retrouvez l'interview qu'il avait accordée à Space Quotes - Souvenirs d'espace https://spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-de-frederick-rick-hauck.html

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1645669255684259840

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Były astronauta zmarł w wieku 84. lat.

Był pilotem pierwszej 5-osobowej załogi STS-7 Challenger.

Cześć jego pamięci !

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Frederick Hamilton Hauck zmarł 06.11.2025 w domu spokojnej starości w Maine.
Cierpiał na chorobę Parkinsona.

Post The Heron House
The Heron House 16 godz. ·
Today our Heron House Family remembers and celebrates the remarkable life of Captain Rick Hauck, a man whose courage carried him through every chapter of life, from commanding missions in space to bravely facing Parkinson’s disease for more than fifteen years.

Rick was a NASA astronaut, naval officer, physicist, husband, and father, but to those of us who had the honor of knowing him here at The Heron House, he was something even more profound: a man of quiet strength and dignity.
Throughout his career, Rick served his country and humanity with distinction. A graduate of Tufts University and MIT, he went on to serve as a Navy pilot, test pilot, and later as a Space Shuttle commander, logging over 5,500 flight hours, including 436 in space. He led missions aboard Challenger and Discovery, and his leadership after the Challenger tragedy helped pave the way for NASA’s return to flight. His career was decorated with the Navy’s Outstanding Test Pilot Award, NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal, and induction into the Astronaut Hall of Fame, among countless other honors.

But beyond the accolades and adventure, Rick’s life was defined by integrity, curiosity, and quiet resilience. Even as Parkinson’s took its toll, his spirit never dimmed. He faced each day with courage and a gentle steadiness that inspired everyone around him. There was a warmth in his presence, a reminder that greatness is not only measured by achievements, but by how one carries themselves through life’s hardest moments.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php

Astronaut Rick Hauck, who led first flight after Challenger, dies at 84

November 7, 2025 — Former NASA astronaut Rick Hauck, who flew on three history-making space shuttle missions, including the "return to flight" following the Challenger tragedy in 1986, has died at the age of 84.

Hauck's death on Thursday (Nov. 6) was noted by the retirement home where he lived in Maine and by notices from the American Space Museum and Astronaut Scholarship Foundation in Florida.
https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-110725a-frederick-rick-hauck-nasa-space-shuttle-astronaut-obituary.html

To Mach 25 and Home: The Memoir of Captain Rick Hauck, Navy Pilot and Astronaut Hardcover
– December 10, 2023 by Nancy Shohet West (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Mach-25-Home-Captain-Astronaut/dp/B0CPWFRLS7

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Oświadczenie p.o. administratora NASA

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy  @SecDuffy NASA 3:53 AM · Nov 8, 2025
Today, the NASA family mourns the passing of Frederick “Rick” Hauck, a decorated naval aviator and three-time space shuttle veteran.
 
He was known as a man of character and bravery, proven time and time again during his time at the agency. My heart goes out to his family, and everyone in the community who knew and loved him.
 
Hauck came to NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1978. He’d go on to pilot space shuttle mission STS-7, flying alongside legends like Sally Ride and Bob Crippen as part of the shuttle’s first five-person crew. He commanded the STS-51A mission, space shuttle Discovery’s second mission, and STS-26, the first shuttle flight after the Challenger accident. NASA thanks him for his service to human spaceflight and the shuttle program, as well as his service to this country.

https://x.com/SecDuffyNASA/status/1986990424649564549

Space Shuttle Almanac @ShuttleAlmanac 10:51 PM · Nov 7, 2025
RIP Rick Hauck crewman of STS-7, STS-51-A (14), STS-26R. We were there to see him launch on the last two.

https://twitter.com/ShuttleAlmanac/status/1986914333562195971

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Bardzo znacząca postać ery wahadłowców.
https://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002666.html
Pierwszy pilot z NASA grupa 8.
08.11.1984 wystartował do drugiego lotu kosmicznego w misji STS-51A Discovery/F-2

Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 2:54 AM · Nov 8, 2025
8 novembre 1984
Il y a 41 ans, Décollage de STS-51A - 1er Commandement de Rick Hauck
Une des plus complexes et spectaculaires missions  du programme navette. http://spacerelics.blogspot.fr/2014/11/8-novembre-1984-lancement-mission-sts.html
Une de mes missions préférées.

Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 10:53 AM · Nov 7, 2025
Disparition de l'astronaute Rick Hauck (1941-2025). Il avait 84 ans.
3 missions parmi les plus mythiques du programme navette : STS-7 / STS-51A et STS-26.
Un hommage lui sera rendu demain.
Et un de mes invités  sur Space Quotes - Souvenirs d'espace :
https://spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-de-frederick-rick-hauck.html

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1986975532337242219
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1986833731601010807

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Obituary: Capt. Frederick “Rick” Hamilton Hauck
Community: Falmouth Posted Yesterday at 1:01 AM
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/11/09/obituarycapt-frederick-rick-hamilton-hauck-2/

ASE at the 36th Planetary Congress in São Paulo @ASE_Astronauts 7:01 PM · Nov 10, 2025
In Memoriam: Frederick Hauck
April 11, 1941 - November 6, 2025

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1987943794239516950
https://www.gettyimages.at/fotos/frederick-hauck

Challenge and Discovery
Astronaut Rick Hauck’s Life of Rigor and Wonder

Vesterheim is thrilled to share the story of U.S. Astronaut Rick Hauck, who has Norwegian heritage, with members and visitors through the next issue of Vesterheim magazine and the current exhibit What’s New?!

For Captain Federick “Rick” Hamilton Hauck, the experience of circling high above the Earth during three shuttle flights was the culmination of many years of hard work, setbacks, victories, and joy. Being in space, Rick writes:
https://vesterheim.org/challene-and-discovery-astronaut-rick-hauck/

Armstrong Air & Space Museum @armstrongspace 6:46 PM · Nov 7, 2025
Astronaut Rick Hauck passed away yesterday at the age of 84. Best known for commanding STS-26, NASA’s first mission following the Challenger tragedy, Rick’s leadership and dedication were instrumental in restoring confidence in America’s space program.
FREDRICK HAUCK
1941 — 2025

https://twitter.com/armstrongspace/status/1986852897393357044

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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex @ExploreSpaceKSC 7:26 PM · Nov 12, 2025
A remembrance wreath has been placed inside Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame to honor the life and legacy of NASA astronaut Rick Hauck. Hauck, STS-7, STS-51-A,STS-26, passed away on November 6, 2025.

https://twitter.com/ExploreSpaceKSC/status/1988674702362177906

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NASA History Office @NASAhistory 9:44 PM · Nov 13, 2025
We also mourn the loss of astronaut Rick Hauck, member of NASA's 8th astronaut class, the "Thirty-Five New Guys," who flew on 3 shuttle missions: STS-7, STS-51A, and STS-26.
We offer our condolences to the friends and families of these extraordinary gentlemen.

Geoffrey K. Kirui (PhD) @GeffKKirui·Nov 13
RIP Sir RickHauck 🕊️. Thank you for your great service at NASA.

https://twitter.com/GeffKKirui/status/1989074403351777345

https://www.astronautscholarship.org/astronauts-frederick-h-rick-hauck/

‘Roger, Go’: Remembering the Shuttle’s Return to Flight, 30 Years Ago
by Ben Evans 7 years ago


Thirty years ago, at 11:38 a.m. EDT on 29 September 1988, America returned to space with humans for the first time in the 32 months since Challenger. Photo Credit: NASA

As America prepares for another “return to flight” next year—carrying astronauts to low-Earth orbit aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon—a moment of reflection should occur this weekend, as 30 years pass since the return to flight of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) in the wake of the Challenger tragedy. Thirty-two months after seven astronauts were lost in the skies above Cape Canaveral, a crew of five rocketed into orbit at 11:38 a.m. EDT for a four-day flight which re-established the shuttle’s credentials, evaluated new hardware for the first time and passed a major hurdle in enabling the more complex missions which would follow.
https://www.americaspace.com/2018/09/30/roger-go-remembering-the-shuttles-return-to-flight-30-years-ago/