Space Shuttle Columbia
Husband's wife Evelyn details her Christian life with Rick and his struggles to fulfill his lifelong dream to become an astronaut in the 2004 book "High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband" co-written with Donna VanLiere. The Husbands have two children: a daughter Laura and a son Matthew. Evelyn married Bill Thompson in January 2008 and was the keynote speaker for the memorial ceremony at the Astronaut Memorial "Space Mirror" at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, five years after the Space Shuttle "Columbia" tragedy.