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Trivia Answer

Posted by jen on 11/07/2011 12:00 am  

Q: Amarillo’s main airport was recently reopened and named Rick Husband International Airport. Who is he?

A: Rick Husband was the space shuttle commander of STS-107 (Columbia). He was killed along with six other astronauts when Columbia disintegrated after reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.

Mr. Husband was born in Amarillo, Texas. Prior to becoming an astronaut, he served as United States Air Force Colonel. Among other things, an asteroid and a hill on Mars are named after him.

Columbia Crew
From left to right: David M. Brown, Rick D. Husband, Laurel B. Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William C. McCool, Ilan Ramon. (Picture Courtesy: NASA)