Frederick W. Sturckow

Frederick Wilford "Rick" Sturckow is an engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut, and commercial spacecraft pilot. Sturckow is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. He flew as a pilot on STS-88 and STS-105 and as a commander on STS-117 and STS-128. All four missions docked with the International Space Station, making Sturckow one of three American astronauts to visit the station four times. Sturckow later was assigned to the Johnson Space Center as a CAPCOM. He left NASA in 2013 to become a pilot for Virgin Galactic.

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1961  Wikimedia, Wikidata
CJ Sturckow; Frederick Wilford Sturckow
military officer, astronaut, 

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  STS-105 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-117 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-128 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  STS-88 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  Unity 21 ⓘ
  2021 crewed sub-orbital spaceflight

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  Unity 25 ⓘ
  2023 American crewed sub-orbital spaceflight

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  Galactic 02 ⓘ
  2023 private crewed suborbital spaceflight

United States, 

1961-08-11T00:00:00Z

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1961 Frederick W. Sturckow

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2023 Galactic 02

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S128E006313 - STS-128 - Sturckow uses Cycle Ergometer on Middeck (MDDK) during STS-128 - DPLA - 122ceb63ce9c16a0667158e2d8c1a410

NASA Astronaut Group 15

Rick Sturckow

STS-88 preflight breakfast

STS-88 crew

STS-105 crew

STS-105 preflight breakfast

Expedition 3 Crew (15208053698)

STS-117 crew in front of the atlantis on service tower

STS-117 new crew photo

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		STS-105	Daniel T. Barry, Frank L. Culbertson, Frederick W. Sturckow, James S. Voss, Mikhail Tyurin, Patrick Forrester, Scott J. Horowitz, Susan J. Helms, Vladimir Dezhurov, Yury Usachov, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-117	Clayton Anderson, Frederick W. Sturckow, James F. Reilly, John Danny Olivas, Lee Archambault, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-128	Christer Fuglesang, Frederick W. Sturckow, John Danny Olivas, Jose M. Hernandez, Kevin A. Ford, Nicole Stott, Patrick Forrester, Timothy Kopra, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-88	Frederick W. Sturckow, James H. Newman, Jerry L. Ross, Nancy J. Currie, Robert D. Cabana, Sergei Krikalev, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight		Unity 21	David Mackay, Frederick W. Sturckow, sub-orbital spaceflight, test flight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight		Unity 25	Beth Moses, Christopher Huie, Frederick W. Sturckow, Jamila Gilbert, Luke Mays, Michael Masucci, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2023	Galactic 02	Anastatia Mayers, Beth Moses, Frederick W. Sturckow, Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff, Kelly Latimer, sub-orbital spaceflight,	Wikidata
incident	incident		[[1]]		Wikidata
commons	image		S128E006313 - STS-128 - Sturckow uses Cycle Ergometer on Middeck (MDDK) during STS-128 - DPLA - 122ceb63ce9c16a0667158e2d8c1a410		Commons
commons	image		NASA Astronaut Group 15		Commons
commons	image		Rick Sturckow		Commons
commons	image		STS-88 preflight breakfast		Commons
commons	image		STS-88 crew		Commons
commons	image		STS-105 crew		Commons
commons	image		STS-105 preflight breakfast		Commons
commons	image		Expedition 3 Crew (15208053698)		Commons
commons	image		STS-117 crew in front of the atlantis on service tower		Commons
commons	image		STS-117 new crew photo		Commons