86 years old (Born on September 11, 1937)
Pilot of the first Space Shuttle orbital test flight, the Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-1 mission. He later commanded 1983 and 1984 flights on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Robert Crippen's Best Moments
NAHF
Enshrinees Patty Wagstaff and Robert Crippen recently celebrated their birthday on the same day.
Do you know the
- NAHF
(7 months ago)
Searching For Skylab
Happy birthday to Robert Crippen! Veteran of MOL, SMEAT, Skylab and ASTP programs and flying four shuttle misions,
- Searching For Skylab
(8 months ago)
Association of Space Explorers
Robert Crippen STS-1 Pilot Crippen took advantage of zero-gravity to do some acrobatics on the mi
- Association of Space Explorers
(8 months ago)
Richard Lobinske PhD
Happy 84th birthday to Robert Crippen
- Richard Lobinske PhD
(8 months ago)
North Trenton
And Happy Birthday to Gherman Titov (d. 2000), Pavel Landovsky (d. 2014), Robert Crippen, Queen Paola of Belgium, D
- North Trenton
(8 months ago)
Space & Rocket Ctr
Happy Birthday to U.S. Navy Captain Robert Crippen, who was the Pilot for STS-1, the very first Space Shuttle missi
- Space & Rocket Ctr
(8 months ago)
❌Antiquated❌Flatulence❌
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NASA! I watched every manned U.S. launch from Allen Shepard\'s sub-orbital mission to John Yo
- ❌Antiquated❌Flatulence❌
(7 months ago)
DanSpace77
September 11, 1937: Happy Birthday Robert Crippen (shown here at right with John Young). Selected as a MOL astronau
- DanSpace77
(8 months ago)
Ulyana Kryukova
September 11 / Happy Birthday Robert Crippen! / American captain, pilot, and astronaut / Time i..
- Ulyana Kryukova
(8 months ago)
PingWiFi
Astronaut Robert Crippen - 78. Happy BDay!
- PingWiFi
(8 months ago)