Richard O. Covey

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Richard Oswalt Covey is a retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Fayetteville

Education

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School; United States Air Force Academy; Purdue University; Choctawhatchee Senior High School

Awards

NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Air Medal; Distinguished Eagle Scout Award; Distinguished Flying Cross; United States Astronaut Hall of Fame

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61Commander · Success · with Claude Nicollier, Jeffrey Hoffman, Kathryn C. Thornton, Ken Bowersox, Story Musgrave, Thomas AkersDecember 2, 1993
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-38Commander · Success · with Carl J. Meade, Charles D. Gemar, Frank L. Culbertson Jr., Robert C. SpringerNovember 15, 1990
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-26Pilot · Success · with David Hilmers, Frederick "Rick" Hauck, George Nelson, John M. LoungeSeptember 29, 1988
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-IPilot · Success · with James van Hoften, Joe Engle, John M. Lounge, William Frederick FisherAugust 27, 1985