William Reid Pogue
Astronaut
| Date of Birth: |
January 23, 1930 |
| Place of Birth: |
Okemah, Oklahoma |
| Joined NASA: |
April 4, 1966 |
| Left NASA: |
September 1, 1975 |
| Space Flights: |
1 |
| Number of EVA's: |
2 |
| Total EVA Time: |
13 hours, 37 minutes |
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MISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Apollo 7
Assignment: Support Crew & Capcom
Apollo 11
Assignment: Capcom
Apollo 13
Assignment: Capcom
Apollo 14
Assignment: Capcom
Skylab 4
November 16, 1973 - February 8, 1974
Assignment: Command Module Pilot
Flight Duration: 84 days, 1 hours, 15 minutes
HIGHLIGHTS
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B.Sc., Education, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1951
M.Sc., Mathematics, Oklahoma State University, 1960
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Joined USAF 1951, recieved wings in 1953.
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1953-1954, Combat tour in Korea.
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1955-1957, Flew with the USAF Aerobatic team the "Thunderbirds".
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After returning to University and recieving Masters degree became Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1960-1963.
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1964-1965 served on an exchange to the Royal Air Force in Britain as a test pilot.
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1973-1974, Command Module Pilot on the last, and longest, Skylab mission, establishing a duration record he shared with his crewmates Gerald Carr and Ed Gibson, until the advent of the Shuttle-Mir series of flights in the 1990's.
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Left NASA to pursue a career as a consultant to aerospace and energy companies.
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Worked with Boeing in support of the space station "Freedom" project.
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Member, subcommittee of the Aerospace Medical Advisory Committee at NASA establishing procedures to certify crew members for extended duration missions in space.
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From September 1987 to February 1988, worked with NASA's Office of Exploration on robot concepts for future Mars missions.
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In May 1989, concluded a two year study on developing requirements for EVA for Earth orbit and Lunar, Mars and Phobos surfaces.
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Author, "How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space", 1974 and "The Trikon Deception", a collaborative Science Fiction novel with noted SF author Ben Bova, 1994.
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