Remembering Challenger Commander Dick Scobee (Part 1: From "Swift Water" to Starlifters)LISL GRUNEWALD UPDATED: FEB 13, 2024
Dick Scobee (left) and his younger brother, Jim.(...) Dick Scobee's real, if not widely known, ambition was to attend a military academy after high school. His high school counselor told him, however, that he did not have what it took to apply to an academy, meaning that he did not know a senator who could personally recommend him. He took a job at Boeing Air Field until he could enlist in the Air Force. With a high score on the entrance exam, Dick was asked to go into intelligence, but requested to be assigned closer to the airplanes, and began his Air Force career as an airplane mechanic. He was stationed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio. (...)
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Remembering-Challenger-Commander-Dick-ScobeeRemembering Challenger Commander Dick Scobee (Part 2: Sky Challenger)LISL GRUNEWALD UPDATED: FEB 4, 2023
(...) Ride recalled the experience in a NASA Oral History report in 2002:
"Everybody was part of the chase crew on STS-1!" she said. "Yes, I was with Dick Scobee. He and I were paired in a T-38 chasing at the Cape. If STS-1 had come back to land at the Cape on RTLS [Return to Launch Site], we would have been one of the chase planes following them in."
Instead of following STS-1 down the runway at Kennedy Space Center, they watched the shuttle fly off the pad from about 18,000 feet in the air in their T-38. Dick later described it as a "very interesting view," but admitted to preferring the riveting sensations of observing from the ground. (...)
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Remembering-Challenger-Commander-Dick-Scobee-Part-2-Sky-ChallengerAstronaut Buried in Arlington RiteBy Lee Hockstader May 19, 1986 at 8:00 p.m. EDT
Without horse-drawn caisson or elaborate tombstone, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, the commander of the space shuttle Challenger, was buried on his birthday yesterday in a service at Arlington National Cemetery as low-key as his life.
Scobee's wife, June, knelt and placed a red rose against the simple tombstone, just paces from the graves of three servicemen who died trying to rescue the American hostages in Iran.
Scobee, a retired Air Force officer who would have been 47 yesterday, was buried with military honors three months and 22 days after Challenger exploded, killing its crew of seven. His midmorning funeral, under a crystal-blue sky, came two weeks after services at Arlington for Challenger pilot Michael J. Smith, the space shuttle's second-in-command. (...)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/05/20/astronaut-buried-in-arlington-rite/411c0ef8-9f53-4ffd-8942-3212b33d6556/
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