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Topic: Happy Birthday Rick Hieb
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Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 551
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 09-21-2005 01:11 PM
  
Shuttle astronaut Richard J. Hieb, who flew on STS-39, STS-49, and STS-65, turns 50 today. Happy birthday with many more to come ! |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-22-2005 01:51 AM
Happy Birthday to Rick!
I was there at KSC for Endeavour's maiden launch, STS-49, and also the Return To Flight festivities where I met with Hieb and Bruce McCandless! Both, very nice guys! |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 09-22-2005 10:54 AM
I met Rick at RocketTown last year where he shared a great story. When training in the swimming pool for up to 8-9 hours at a time, the astronauts got pretty hungry. Apparently they didn't get the foodstick when training that they had when actually doing the spacewalk ($$$). Therefore he and his buddies would hit the Wendy's across from JSC and chow down a couple double cheeseburgers prior to suiting up and hitting the pool. Not everything is as high tech as we might sometimes think. | |
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