Richard Hieb

American astronaut

Richard Hieb belongs to the record of exploration as a figure whose journeys changed what was known.

The record lists Richard Hieb as American astronaut.

Richard Hieb was born at Jamestown in 1955. His recorded nationality is United States.

Modern exploration moved to the places the body cannot survive unaided: the deep ocean, the upper atmosphere and orbit, reached by engineering as much as by nerve.

He is recorded as astronaut, engineer and university teacher.

Exploration was always as much logistics as courage, and the logistics are what decided outcomes.

Richard Hieb is still active, and the record of the career is not yet closed.

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