Frederick H. Hauck
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | Frederick Hamilton Hauck April 11, 1941 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Test Pilot |
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Tufts University, B.S. 1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. 1966 |
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| Rank | Captain, USN |
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Time in space
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18d 03h 07m |
| Selection | 1978 NASA Group 8 |
| Missions | STS-7, STS-51-A, STS-26 |
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Mission insignia
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Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck (pronounced "Howk"; born April 11, 1941) is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.
He was born April 11, 1941 in Long Beach, California, but considers Winchester, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. to be his hometowns. His parents are the late Captain and Mrs. Phillip F. Hauck. His maternal grandfather, Olaf M. Hustvedt, was a United States Navy vice admiral who commanded battleships during World War II. 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 of AXA Space, Inc.
Hauck, a Naval ROTC student at Tufts University, was commissioned upon graduation in 1962 and reported to the destroyer USS Warrington, where he served 20 months as communications officer and Combat Information Center 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 the Russian language 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology the next year. He commenced flight training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida in 1966, and was designated a Naval Aviator, receiving his aviator wings in 1968. As a pilot with Attack Squadron 35 he deployed to the Western Pacific with Carrier Air Wing Fifteen aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, flying 114 combat and combat support missions in the A-6 Intruder.
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