status birth_place mission nationality article_title birth_date selection rank insignia image time name type occupation
retired la mesa , california sts-88 , sts-105 , sts-117 , sts-128 american frederick w. sturckow
 11 august 1961 1994 nasa group colonel , usmc 30px 30px 30px 40px rick sturckow.jpg 51d 09h 36m rick sturckow nasa astronaut test pilot
frederick w. sturckow

frederick wilford `` rick '' sturckow -lrb- born august 11 , 1961 -rrb- is an engineer , united states marine corps officer and a nasa astronaut .
sturckow is a veteran of four space shuttle missions .
he flew on sts-88 and sts-105 as a pilot and sts-117 and sts-128 as a commander .
all four missions docked with the international space station , making sturckow one of two people to visit the station four times .
sturckow later was assigned to the johnson space center as a capcom .
he left nasa in may 2013 to become a pilot for virgin galactic .
