Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11 1937 in Beaumont Texas) is a retired United States Navy Captain and former astronaut for the United States Department of Defense and for NASA. He was the pilot of the First Space Shuttle flight and flew three additional missions as commander. Crippen is a recipient to the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.He married Pandora Lee Puckett of Miami Florida.
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