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Husband's wife, Evelyn (born September 18, 1958), details her Christian life with Rick and his struggles to fulfill his lifelong dream to become an astronaut in the 2004 book High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband co-written with Donna VanLiere. The Husbands have two children: a daughter ...
Evelyn Husband, wife of Columbia’s commander Rick Husband, lost much more — the love of her life, the father of her children, the backbone of her family.
Jun 18, 2024 · Rick D. Husband. Commander. Rick Husband, 45, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was a test pilot and veteran of one spaceflight. He served as commander for STS-107.
Feb 3, 2003 · Columbia's commander, Rick Husband, aged 45, was a US air force colonel recruited to the space programme in 1994. He made his first flight in 1999; last week's was his second.
Feb 1, 2003 · By Pam Belluck. Feb. 1, 2003. It took Rick D. Husband four tries to convince NASA to let him become an astronaut. The 45-year-old Air Force colonel from Amarillo, Tex., had yearned to fly in...
Most recently, he served as Chief of Safety for the Astronaut Office. He flew as pilot on STS-96 in 1999, and has logged 235 hours and 13 minutes in space. Husband was last assigned to command the crew of STS-107 scheduled for launch in 2003.
At Boscombe Down, Husband was the Tornado GR1 and GR4 Project Pilot and served as a test pilot in the Hawk, Hunter, Buccaneer, Jet Provost, Tucano, and Harvard. He has logged over 3800 hours of flight time in more than 40 different types of aircraft.
