Three New U.S. Astronauts Inducted into Famed Hall

Three New U.S. Astro­nauts Induct­ed into Famed Hall



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Curt Brown, Eileen Collins and Bon­nie Dun­bar, Ph.D., joined an elite group of Amer­i­can space heroes with their induc­tion into the U.S. Astro­naut Hall of Fame on Sat­ur­day, April 20, 2013, dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at Kennedy Space Cen­ter Vis­i­tor Com­plex. Brown flew on six mis­sions and was com­man­der of Dis­cov­ery when Sen­a­tor John Glenn returned to space on STS-95; Collins flew four mis­sions begin­ning with Dis­cov­ery as the first female space shut­tle pilot on STS-63, this was also the first flight of a new joint Russ­ian-Amer­i­can Space Pro­gram, and con­tin­ued to make his­to­ry on STS-93 as the first female space shut­tle com­man­der; and Dun­bar, a vet­er­an of five flights, served as a mis­sion spe­cial­ist on Atlantis for STS-71, the first space shut­tle mis­sion to dock with the Russ­ian space sta­tion Mir.

The 2013 inductees were select­ed by a com­mit­tee of cur­rent Hall of Fame astro­nauts, for­mer NASA offi­cials, flight direc­tors, his­to­ri­ans and journalists.



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