1. Stuart Allen Roosa was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.
20 Facts About Stuart Roosa
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Stuart Roosa was one of 24 men to travel to the Moon, which he orbited 34 times.
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Stuart Roosa attended Justus Grade School and Claremore High School in Claremore, Oklahoma, from which he graduated in 1951.
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Stuart Roosa began his career as a smokejumper with the US Forest Service, dropping into at least four active fires in Oregon and California during the 1953 fire season.
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Stuart Roosa was a graduate of the Aviation Cadet Program at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, where he received his flight training commission in the US Air Force.
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Stuart Roosa attended the US Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School and was an experimental test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California before being selected for the astronaut class of 1966.
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From July 1962 to August 1964, Stuart Roosa was a maintenance flight test pilot at Olmstead Air Force Base, Pennsylvania, flying F-101 Voodoo aircraft.
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Stuart Roosa was a fighter pilot at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where he flew the F-84F Thunderstreak and F-100 Super Sabre aircraft.
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Stuart Roosa was one of 19 people selected as part of the astronaut class of 1966.
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Stuart Roosa was the Capsule communicator at the Launch Complex 34 blockhouse during the Apollo 1 fire on January 27,1967.
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Stuart Roosa later served as backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 16 and Apollo 17.
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Stuart Roosa was assigned to the Space Shuttle program until his retirement as a colonel from the Air Force in 1976.
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Stuart Roosa logged 5,500 hours of flying time; 5,000 hours in jet aircraft.
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Stuart Roosa, who attended Harvard Business School's six-week Advanced Management Program in 1973, later held a number of positions in international and US businesses.
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Stuart Roosa founded Gulf Coast Coors in 1981; he served as its president until his death.
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On December 12,1994, Stuart Roosa died at age 61 in Washington, DC, from complications of pancreatitis.
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Stuart Roosa was survived by his wife Joan, three sons and a daughter, and seven grandchildren.
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Stuart Roosa's memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, New York Safari Club, Board of Directors, People-to-People Sports Committee, Hunting Hall of Fame, Circumnavigators Club, Explorers Club, Commemorative Air Force, Shikar-Safari-Club and Gulfport Yacht Club.
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Stuart Roosa was one of five Oklahoman astronauts inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame in 1980 and he was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983.
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Stuart Roosa was posthumously inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997.