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Bob Crippen

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Bob Crippen

Foil: 37 Panel: 4 Column: 1 Line: 10

Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Leader

Honored by:

Naval Aviator, Pilot on first Orbital flight of the Space Shuttle and Commander on Space Shuttle flights STS 7, 41C and 41G. Space Shuttle Director 1990 and 1991, Director of the Kennedy Space Center 1992 through 1994. President of Thiokol Propulsion, builder of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motors beginning in 1996.

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