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Dick Scobee Biography

From Nick Greene, About.com GuideFebruary 7, 2006

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Dick Scobee came into the world, as Francis Richard Scobee, on May 19, 1939. As a youth he was fascinated by airplanes, so after graduating from Auburn High School (Auburn, WA) in 1957, he joined the Air Force. He received his wings in 1966 and went on to several assignments, includinga combat your in Vietnam, where he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.

He was selected as an astronaut in January of 1978. He first flew into space as pilot of the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41C on April 6, 1984. His final flight was as spacecraft commander of STS-51L, also aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986.

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Image Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC)
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