Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (IATA: AMA, ICAO: KAMA, FAA LID: AMA) is a public airport six miles (10 km) east of downtown Amarillo, in Potter County, Texas, United States. [2] The airport was renamed in 2003 after NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Rick Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that ...
Pilot (PLT) Rick D. Husband (left) and EVA Specialist Tamara E. Jernigan (right) during STS-96 STS-96 (May 27 to June 6, 1999) aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery was a 10-day mission during which the crew performed the first docking with the International Space Station and delivered four tons of logistics and supplies in preparation for the ...
Remembering Rick Husband. Rick Husband, born in Amarillo in 1957, was a distinguished astronaut and a dedicated public servant. A graduate of Texas Tech University, he earned a degree in ...
Amarillo: AMA: AMA KAMA Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport: P-N 303,904 Austin: AUS: AUS KAUS Austin–Bergstrom International Airport: P-L 6,666,215 Beaumont: BPT: BPT KBPT Jack Brooks Regional Airport (was Southeast Texas Regional) P-N 21,914 Brownsville: BRO: BRO KBRO Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport: P-N 167,957 ...
The city said the memorabilia will be displayed in the airport meet-and-greet area, near the statue of Rick Husband. For more information on the STS-96 mission, go to the NASA website at:www.nasa ...
Site history; Built: 1940–1944: In use: 1940–present: ... Amarillo Army Air Field: Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport: Avenger Army Air Field:
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
In 1989, a group of aviation enthusiasts in Amarillo formed an air and space museum at private Tradewind Airport in southeast Amarillo. [citation needed] In 1997, the museum moved from Tradewind Airport to the Amarillo International Airport (later Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport) and into old buildings that, for most of the years from 1929 through 1972, served as Amarillo's ...