Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr.
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| USAF / NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Born |
November 21, 1933 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | July 17, 2014 (aged 80) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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Other names
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Henry Warren Hartsfield, Jr. |
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Other occupation
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Test pilot |
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AU, B.S. 1954 Duke University AFIT UTK, M.S. 1971 |
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| Rank | Colonel, USAF |
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Time in space
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20d 02h 50m |
| Selection |
1966 USAF MOL Group 1969 NASA Group 7 |
| Missions | STS-4, STS-41-D, STS-61-A |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | March 1998 |
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Henry Warren "Hank" Hartsfield, Jr. (November 21, 1933 – July 17, 2014) was a United States Air Force officer and a USAF and NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space.
Henry Hartsfield was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and his mother, Mrs. Norma Hartsfield, resided there. He was married to the former Judy Frances Massey of Princeton, North Carolina, and has a daughter named Judy Lynn, born May 29, 1958. His younger daughter, Keely Warren, born on May 14, 1959, died on March 10, 2014.
Graduated from West End High School (Birmingham, Alabama); earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Auburn University in 1954, where he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity; performed graduate work in Physics at Duke University and in Astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson AFB; and was awarded a Master of Science degree in Engineering Science from the University of Tennessee in 1971.
Hartsfield received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Auburn University. He entered the U.S. Air Force in 1955, and his assignments included a tour with the 53rd Tactical Fighter Squadron in Bitburg, West Germany. He is also a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was an instructor there prior to his assignment in 1966 to the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program as an astronaut. After the cancellation of the MOL program in June 1969, he was reassigned to NASA.
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