Richard Noel "Dick" Richards (born August 24, 1946) is a NASA astronaut.
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980, Richards became an astronaut in August 1981. Richards flew four times--STS-28 (August 8-13, 1989), STS-41 (October 6-10, 1990), STS-50 (June 25-July 9, 1992), and STS-64 (September 9-20, 1994)--and logged a total of 33 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes, 15 seconds in space.
On his first space flight, Richards was pilot on the ...
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Richard Noel "Dick" Richards (born August 24, 1946) is a NASA astronaut.
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980, Richards became an astronaut in August 1981. Richards flew four times--STS-28 (August 8-13, 1989), STS-41 (October 6-10, 1990), STS-50 (June 25-July 9, 1992), and STS-64 (September 9-20, 1994)--and logged a total of 33 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes, 15 seconds in space.
On his first space flight, Richards was pilot on the crew of STS-28 which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 8, 1989. The mission carried Department of Defense payloads and a number of secondary payloads. After 80 orbits of the Earth, this five-day mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August 13, 1989. Mission duration was 121 hours 9 seconds.
Slightly more than one year later, Richards commanded the crew of STS-41. The five-man crew launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on October 6 from the Kennedy Space...
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