Col. Karol J. Bobko ’55
Col. Karol J. Bobko '55
Alumni Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1999
NASA Astronaut
A NASA astronaut who logged 386 hours in space on three missions, Col. Bobko was the pilot of the maiden voyage of the spacecraft Challenger, the mission that conducted the first shuttle space walk. He was the commander of the spacecraft Atlantis’s first flight. A member of the Air Force Academy’s first graduating class, he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Meritorious Service Medals. He was awarded the Air Force Academy’s prestigious Jabara Award in 1983 and inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2011.
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