12 Facts About Richard Hieb

Richard Hieb was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65.

Richard Hieb is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department.

Richard Hieb's mother was a long time elementary school teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Jamestown, North Dakota and his father was a transport driver before retiring and operating a small business buying and selling antiques and specialty items where he was a well-known figure at sales around eastern North Dakota.

Richard Hieb received a Bachelor of Arts degree in math and physics from Northwest Nazarene College in 1977.

Richard Hieb went on to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979 with a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering.

Richard Hieb worked in the Mission Control Center on the ascent team for STS-1, and during rendezvous phases on numerous subsequent flights.

Richard Hieb has an extensive background in on-orbit procedures development, particularly in rendezvous and proximity operations.

Richard Hieb logged over 750 hours in space, including over 17 hours of EVA, traveling over 13 million miles.

Richard Hieb first flew on the crew of STS-39, an unclassified Department of Defense mission which launched on April 28,1991, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Richard Hieb operated the remote system to release the satellite, and then to retrieve the satellite a day and a half later.

Richard Hieb was a mission specialist on the crew of STS-49, the maiden voyage of the new Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 7,1992.

Richard Hieb was the payload commander on the second flight of the International Microgravity Laboratory on Space Shuttle Mission STS-65.