Commander With the Righteous Stuff; Wearing His Texas Roots and Spirituality Proudly, Astronaut Was Antithesis of NASA's Space Cowboys

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 5, 2003| Author: Manny Fernandez and Robert E. Pierre | Copyright information

Astronaut Rick D. Husband returned from his first trip to outer space in the summer of 1999 with pictures of plankton swirls in the Black Sea and fresh-from-orbit gifts for the small Texas airport where he had learned to fly. He also carried a striking message.

Being an astronaut "was not the absolute culmination of everything there is to life on Earth," he told the packed sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church in his hometown of Amarillo, Tex., one August morning. "As exciting as a ri...

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