Astronaut
Apollo-Soyuz mission: Acted as command module pilot on board Apollo Spacecraft. Mission was first historic meeting in space between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts.
STS-5 mission: Commanded STS-5, the first fully operational flight of the Space Shuttle Transportation System. This mission was flown in the Space shuttle Columbia.
STS-41-B mission: Commanded the Space Shuttle Challenger on the tenth Space Shuttle flight. This eight day orbital flight culminated in the first landing to the runway at the Kennedy Space Center.
Longmont Chapter, Longmont, Colorado. Initiated 1945