#rick husband

[lully-jo]

I do not think a day has passed that I haven't just had big hot tears about the Artemis II mission and god I am praying to every soul to protect those 4 as they return to our blue marble. Protect them Laika Protect them Félicette Protect them Gus Grissom Protect them Edward H. White Protect them Roger B. Chaffee Protect them Dick Scobee Protect them Michael J. Smith Protect them Ronald McNair Protect them Ellison Onizuka Protect them Judith Resnik Protect them Gregory Jarvis Protect them Christa McAuliffe Protect them Rick Husband Protect them William C. McCool Protect them Michael P. Anderson Protect them Kalpana Chawla Protect them David M. Brown Protect them Laurel Clark Protect them Ilan Ramon

[cns-mari]

okay mari let's put down all this research on the 2003 Columbia tragedy you're gonna fall into a hole and make yourself cry again over 7 dead astronauts lets not do that please

[gusgrissom]

Sixteen minutes from home. Remembering the crew of Columbia STS-107, twenty years ago today.

Colonel Rick Douglas Husband, USAF (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003)

Commander William Cameron McCool, USN (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003)

Captain David McDowell Brown, USN (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003)

Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003)

Lieutenant Colonel Michael Phillip Anderson, USAF (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003)

Captain Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D., USN (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003)

Colonel Ilan Ramon, IAF (June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003)

[tracyluca]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RICK HUSBAND!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉

[rickhusband]

Although this week is always a sad one as we remember the sacrifices of the fallen astronauts, here’s a happy picture of the STS-107 crew celebrating their upcoming mission. I always prefer to celebrate the astronauts’ lives and their accomplishments while they were alive, instead of focusing on the tragedy of the day. I think many in the space community feel the same way.

[ridethecyanide]

February 1, 2003: 17 years ago today - David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla , Michael Anderson, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon perish when their space shuttle, Columbia, broke apart during reentry.

May they RIP ❤️

[southwestcollectionarchives]

The Southwest Collection has a new exhibit entitled “From Here It’s Possible: West Texas Goes to the Stars,” featuring items from our aerospace collections, as well as oral histories conducted with astronauts and NASA employees with West Texas and Texas Tech connections.

Rick Husband graduated from Texas Tech in 1980 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Soon after, he joined the U.S. Air Force where he flew F-4 Phantoms, served as an instructor pilot and academic instructor at postings in the U.S. and Great Britain, and became an accomplished test pilot, flying over 40 different types of aircraft during his career. In 1994 NASA selected Colonel Husband as an astronaut candidate, eventually assigning him the role of pilot on the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-96 mission in 1999. He served as Commander of the space shuttle Columbia on the STS-107 mission.

Want more astronauts, NASA, and outer space? Here you go.

[humanoidhistory]

Remembering the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107, killed on February 1, 2003 when the orbiter disintegrated as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere: Ilan Ramon, payload specialist; William C. McCool, pilot; David M. Brown, mission specialist; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Michael P. Anderson, payload commander; Laurel B. Clark, mission specialist; and Rick D. Husband, mission commander. (NASA)