Died 2014-03-03.
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William R. Pogue
William Reid Pogue was an American astronaut and pilot who served in the United States Air Force (USAF) as a fighter pilot and test pilot, and reached the rank of colonel. He was also a teacher, public speaker and author.
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science · American astronaut (1930–2014) · military officer · astronaut · autobiographer · aircraft pilot · mathematician · also William R. Pogue, William Pogue, William Reid Pogue, Bill Pogue, Pogue
Born 23 January 1930 · Died 3 March 2014 · Q460440
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2012· 1 entry
Pogue's last marriage was to Tina, whom he wed in 2012.
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1992· 1 entry
Co-wrote The Trikon Deception, a science-fiction novel, with Ben Bova
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1985· 2 entries
That the flight had made him more empathetic, saying “I try to put myself into the human situation, instead of trying to operate like a machine
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Pogue wrote a book called How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space
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1979· 1 entry
And the marriage lasted until Baird's death in 2009
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1975· 2 entries
Pogue retired from the USAF, as a colonel, and NASA, to become vice president of High Flight Foundation
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And was one of five Oklahoman astronauts inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame in 1980
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1974· 2 entries
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1974).
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President Richard Nixon presented the Skylab 4 crew with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awarded the crew the De La Vaulx Medal and Vladimir Komarov Diploma that year
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1962· 1 entry
But was rejected due to a lack of pilot experience
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1960· 2 entries
Graduated from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, with a Master of Science degree in Mathematics
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Served as mathematics professor at the United States Air Force Academy, and after training at the Empire Test Pilots' School, he was a test pilot whose service included a two-years exchange with the Royal Air Force (R
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1952· 2 entries
William Pogue married three times; his first marriage was in 1952 to Helen Juanita Dittmar, with whom he had three children.
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To Helen Juanita Dittmar, with whom he had three children
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1951· 1 entry
Underwent the aviation cadet training program in 1952
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1930· 2 entries
Born 1930-01-23.
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In Okemah, Oklahoma, to Alex Wallis Pogue and Margaret Frances Pogue (née McDow) and he self-identifies as being of Choctaw descent
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