USA
Frederick Sturckow
(Frederick Wilford "Rick" Sturckow)
(Aug 11, 1961)
Astronaut 384
Astronaut of the USA 241
Spaceflights 4
Spaceflights
No. | Launch | Orbiter | Duration |
1st | May 27, 1999 | Endeavour STS-88 | 11 d 19 h 17 m 55 s (283 h 17 m 55 s) |
2nd | Aug 10, 2001 | Discovery STS-105 - ISS | 11 d 21 h 12 m 44 s (285 h 12 m 44 s) |
3rd | Jun 08, 2007 | Atlantis STS-117 - ISS | 13 d 20 h 11 m 34 s (332 h 11 m 34 s) |
4th | Aug 29, 2009 | Discovery STS-128 - ISS | 13 d 20 h 53 m 48 s (332 h 53 m 48 s) |
Dec 13, 2018 | SpaceShipTwo | 13.12.2018 15:10:00 - 16:14:00 1 h 4 m 0 s | |
Cumulative time: | 51 d 9 h 36 m 1 s (1233 h 36 m 1 s) |
Frederick Sturckow left NASA in 2013 and joined Virgin Galactic. From 2018 to 2023 In 1965, Frederick Sturckow made four suborbital flights in the VSS Unity rocket plane. All four flights were above 50 miles, the US-recognized limit of space, but below 100 km, the internationally recognized limit of space.
Frederick Sturckow on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Frederick Sturckow - pilot of the Space Shuttle.