With this year’s inductees, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame has honored 57 people.
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New Iinductees :
— Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., was NASA’s first female spacewalker in 1984. Sullivan also helped launch the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990.
— Richard O. Covey, Col., USAF (Ret.). He was pilot of the first Space Shuttle return to flight mission in 1988 following the Challenger accident. He commanded the 1993 Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. He is leading the task group making an independent assessment of NASA’s Return to Flight efforts.
— Norman E. Thagard, M.D., the first American to live on Russia’s Mir space station. He spent 115 days working on Mir in 1995.
— Francis R. Scobee, commander of the 1986 Challenger mission that ended in disaster 73 seconds after liftoff. Scobee was represented by his widow, June.
— Frederick D. Gregory, logged more than 455 hours in orbit on three missions from 1985 to 1991 as a Space Shuttle pilot and, twice, as Shuttle commander. He was the first African-American astronaut to command a Space Shuttle mission.
Biographical information on the Hall of Fame inductees is available on the Internet at:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio_former.html