Wednesday September 21, 1955

Birth of Richard Hieb

Is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.

He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. After leaving NASA he worked at AlliedSignal and Orbital before spending 14 years as an executive at Lockheed Martin.

He is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department.

68 years ago