National Aeronautics and Space Administration Wiki, Commanders of the International Space Station, Crew members of the International Space Station, United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees, Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni, http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/policies.html#Guidelines, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/scouting_space.aspx, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jun/HQ_M10-085_Astro_Hall_of_Fame.html, Space.com announcement of Bowersox's resignation from SpaceX, NASA Astronaut Group 12, "The GAFFers", 1987, https://nasa.fandom.com/wiki/Ken_Bowersox?oldid=22276. And on 20 October 1995, as the seven astronauts of STS-73 departed the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, bound for the launch pad and Space Shuttle Columbia, they did so with their U.S.-flag-emblazoned baseball caps turned back to front. Official Sites. Bowersox retired from NASA on September 30, 2006. CNMN Collection As a consequence, STS-67 was shifted onto Shuttle Endeavour and flew successfully in March 1995. "Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Doug Loverro has resigned from his position effective Monday, May 18," the statement said. Bowersox has previously led HEO in a time of transition, and NASA has the right leadership in place to continue making progress on the Artemis and Commercial Crew programs. Your California Privacy Rights | Do Not Sell My Personal Information Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Coleman and Lopez-Alegria deployed the payload bay doors, radiators and Ku-band antenna. The latter carried responsibility for breaking the hold-down bolts of the twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) at T-0, as well as commanding the pyrotechnics to separate the spent boosters and the ET during flight. Among many admirable jobs, he was the flight veteran who logged over 211 days in space - including 2 EVAs (space walks) totaling over 13 hours. Join Facebook to connect with Ken Bowersox and others you may know. "Our mission is certainly not easy, nor for the faint of heart, and risk-taking is part of the job description," Loverro wrote. Ken Bowersox (19th Co.) was Aeronautical Engineering major at the Naval Academy. Bowersox is a recipient of the National Defense Service Medal with award star, Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and NASA Space Flight Medal with four award stars. You must login or create an account to comment. Bowersox, currently the Deputy Associate Administrator for HEO, is a retired US Naval Aviator with more than two decades of experience at NASA," the statement said. Copyright © 2020 AmericaSpace, LLC - All Rights Reserved. However, following the March 1994 decision to once again utilize Palmdale staff for OMDP activities, it was realized that insufficient time existed to remove the ASTRO-2 hardware from Columbia, fly her out to the West Coast for six months of enhancements, fly her back to the Cape, and process her for STS-73, in time for a launch in the fall of 1995. Watching the footage of the STS-73 crew, led by Ken “Sox” Bowersox, the youngest person ever to command a shuttle mission, departing the O&C Building that morning, it is also notable that they strode along the hall with their cap-peaks positioned face-forward, then elected to reverse them as they emerged into a throng of well-wishers and photographers’ flashbulbs.

On no fewer than six occasions, she and her crew were foiled by scrub after scrub. However, his departure does not seem to be directly related to his work on Crew Dragon. Ken Bowersox, Self: Space Voyages. He was due to chair a Flight Readiness Review meeting on Thursday to officially clear SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft for the first flight of humans to the International Space Station. On Tuesday, NASA announced that its chief of human spaceflight had resigned from the space agency. He then launched on STS-113 with Don Pettit and Nikolai Budarin for an extended stay aboard the ISS as the commander of ISS Expedition 6 in 2002 and 2003, returning aboard Soyuz TMA-1 rather than the Space Shuttle as a result of the fleet's grounding following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which occurred during Bowersox's tour aboard the Station. Eric Berger