William Hawkins

William "Hawk" Hawkins was one of the protagonists on the 2000 film Space Cowboys.
Hawkings was portrayed by the American actor Tommy Lee Jones.
==Biography==
Joining the United States Air Force, Hawk was a test pilot by the late 1950s. In a late 1950s flight he was a pilot on a Bell X-2 flight with co-pilot Frank Corwin. The plane stalls in the process and the two are forced to eject, with the plane nearly hitting the B-52 with navigator Tank Sullivan and flight engineer Jerry O'Neill aboard. On the ground Hawk and Corwin get into a physical altercation which is broken up by Sullivan and O'Neill. Hawkins learns that newly formed NASA will take over the space program and he and his fellow test pilots will not participate in future missions.
By the late 1990s Hawk had retired from active duty and spent most of his days taking people on rides on his World War One era fighter bi-plane, when he was recruited by Frank Corwin to participate in a mission to stabilize the old Soviet satellite ICON. (The Russians claimed it was a communications satellite, but in reality it was an orbital weapons platform, complete with nuclear missiles).
Over the next few weeks Hawk spent his time in intensive physical training and getting ready for the mission. He also developed a romantic relationship with NASA engineer Sara Holland. It was soon discovered that he had terminal cancer, but Hawk decided to forego treatment due to what his first wife went through when she had terminal cancer. NASA decided that since he had passed all the other physical requirements he could participate in the mission anyways.
A few days later Hawk, Tank, O'Neill, and Corwin along with the younger astronauts Roger Hines and Ethan Glance blasted off into orbit on the Space Shuttle Daedules. During the mission the crew uncovered ICON's true purpose. In order to keep ICON from launching all of its nuclear missiles on various American targets, Hawk wired up the satellite to launch it into a trajectory towards the moon then eject the missles into permanent orbit around the sun. Strapping himself to the satellite he achieved all of these goals, keeping ICON from ever threatening Earth. 
Hawk landed on the moon and found a place to rest, He subsequently died on the moon, having made it and dying in a far more satisfactory manner than in some hospital from cancer. Meanwhile the other crew members on Daedalus made it back to Earth safely. Back on Earth, while he couldn't be sure, Corwin believed Hawk indeed made it to the moon. 
 
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