Henry Hartsfield
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Henry Warren Hartsfield Jr. was a colonel in the United States Air Force and a NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2006.
Hartsfield in 1979
Columbia astronauts Thomas K. Mattingly and Pilot Henry W. Hartsfield salute President Ronald Reagan, standing beside his wife, Nancy, upon landing in 1982.
The crew of STS-41-D in orbit aboard Discovery. Hartsfield is at the lower center.
President Ronald Reagan talks with astronauts Henry Hartsfield and Thomas Mattingly as first lady Nancy Reagan looks at Space Shuttle Columbia following its 1982 Independence Day landing at Edwards Air Force Base.
STS-4
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STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and also the fourth for Space Shuttle Columbia. Crewed by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield, the mission launched on June 27, 1982, and landed a week
Henry Hartsfield
…Hartsfield served as backup pilot for STS-2 and STS-3, Columbia's second and third orbital flight tests. Hartsfield was the pilot on STS-4, the fourth and final orbital test flight of the shuttle Columbia, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 27, 1982. He was accompanied…
Columbia begins its final test flight from Launch Complex 39A of KSC
Hartsfield and MattinglySpace Shuttle program← STS-3STS-5 →
The Induced Environment Contaminant Monitor (IECM) is grappled by the Canadarm.
Space Shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base runway 22.