Career record
Flights
5
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
32d 2h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Steven Alan Hawley is a former NASA astronaut who flew on five U.S. Space Shuttle flights. He is professor of physics and astronomy and director of engineering physics at the University of Kansas. Following an aborted attempt to launch STS-41-D where two main engines were stopped shortly after they started because the third failed to start, Hawley is reported to have broken the tense atmosphere in the shuttle cabin, saying, "I thought we'd be a lot higher at MECO!"
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 | STS-93 — Mission Specialist · Success · July 23, 1999
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-82 — Mission Specialist · Success · February 11, 1997
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31 (Hubble) — Mission Specialist · Success · April 24, 1990
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-61-C — Mission Specialist · Success · January 12, 1986
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-41-D — Mission Specialist · Success · August 30, 1984
Born 1951-12-12