Richard O. Covey belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Richard O. Covey as American astronaut.
Richard O. Covey was born at Fayetteville in 1946. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and United States Air Force Academy.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Richard O. Covey is described as military officer, astronaut and aircraft pilot.
His affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Richard O. Covey is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Affiliated with National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Educated at U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, United States Air Force Academy and Purdue University
- Worked as military officer, astronaut and aircraft pilot
