First Shuttle Pilot Receives Highest U.S. Space Award
Robert L. Crippen, who joined John Young on the flight deck of the first space shuttle mission, received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at an Apr. 26 ceremony commemorating the shuttle program's 25th anniversary. Authorized by Congress in 1969 as the highest U.S. award for spaceflight, the...
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