Flight record
4 flights on padside's record, flying from 1981 to 1984.
4Flights
23d 13hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. Crippen received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-GOctober 5, 1984
- Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 | STS-41-CApril 6, 1984
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-7June 18, 1983 · 11:33 UTC
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-1April 12, 1981
Born 1937-09-11