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Frederick H. (Rick) Hauck (pronounced HOWK)
(Captain, U.S. Navy, Retired) is a former NASA
Astronaut.

==Personal data==
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. Philip F. Hauck.
Rick is married to Susan Cameron Bruce. During his
spare time, he enjoys skiing, sailing, kayaking,
golf, tennis, and working on his 1958 Corvette.
Currently, he is President and Chief Executive
Officer, AXA Space|AXA (pronounced “ack-sah”)
Space, Inc.

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

==Experience==
Hauck, a Navy ROTC student at Tufts University,
was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and
reported to USS Warrington (DD-843)|USS Warrington
(DD-843) where he served 20 months as
communications officer and CIC officer. 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)|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
Intruder. 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 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
Dave Walker (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.

In March 1985 Captain Hauck became the astronaut
office project officer for the integration of the
liquid-fueled Centaur rocket|Centaur upper stage
rocket into the shuttle. In May 1985 he was named
Commander of the Centaur-boosted Ulysses
probe|Ulysses solar probe mission (sponsored by
the European Space Agency). 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, John M. Lounge|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. Discovery completed 64
orbits of the earth before landing at Edwards Air
Force Base, California, on October 3, 1988. Hauck
has logged over 5500 flight hours, 436 in space.

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.

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 is a world
leader in providing property and casualty
insurance for the risk of launching and operating
satellites.

Information current as of November 2001.

==Memberships, Boards, & Panels==
* Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots
* Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA)
* Board of Trustees, Tufts University (1987-)
* Board of Governors, St. Albans School (1989-95)
* Association of Space Explorers (Vice President,
1991-1993|93; Board of Directors, 2000-)
* Technical Advisor to The Synthesis Group on
America’s Space Exploration Initiative
(1990-1991|91)
* Commercial Space Transportation Advisory
Committee (COMSTAC), Department of Transportation
(1992-1999|99)
* Chair, COMSTAC Task Group on Russian Entry into
Commercial Space Markets (1992)
* NASA Commercial Programs Advisory Committee
(1991)
* 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 (1994-1995|95)
* Chair, NASA External Independent Readiness
Review Team for Second Hubble Space Telescope
Servicing Mission (1995-1997|97)
* National Research Council (NRC) Aeronautics and
Space Engineering Board (1996- )
* NRC Committee on International Space Station
Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management (1995-1996)
* Chair, NRC Committee on Space Shuttle
Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management (1997)
* Boeing Space Launch Mission Assurance Review
Team (1999)
* External Requirements Assessment Team for NASA
2nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
(2000- )
* Chair, NRC Committee on Precursor Measurements
Necessary to Support Human Operations on the
Surface of Mars (2001-)
* Executive Committee, Astronaut Scholarship
Foundation
* Board of Directors, American Astronautical
Society (AAS) (1997-2000)
* Chair, Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers,
Tufts University (1997- )
* External Visiting Committee, Dept. of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford Univ.
(2001)

==Special honors==
* Two Department of Defense Distinguished Service
Medal|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 Astronaut badge|Space Flight Medal (3)
* 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
* the Tufts University Light on the Hill Award
* the Delta Upsilon Distinguished Alumnus Award
* Who’s Who in America

Source:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hauck-fh.htm
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