Steven Hawley

Steven Hawley is an American astronomer and retired NASA astronaut who flew five Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist: STS-41-D (1984), STS-61-C (1986), STS-31 (1990), STS-82 (1997) and STS-93 (1999). On STS-31 he helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. On STS-82, the second Hubble servicing mission, he operated the robot arm during five spacewalks. He is the only astronaut to have both deployed Hubble and flown on one of its servicing missions. He later became a professor at the University of Kansas.

Born: 12 December 1951
Country: United States
Flights: 5: STS-41-D (1984), STS-61-C (1986), STS-31 (1990), STS-82 (1997), STS-93 (1999)
Time in space: 32 days 2 hours

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

11 February 1997

STS-82 Hubble Servicing Mission 2
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
- Kenneth Bowersox, Scott Horowitz, Steven Hawley, Mark Lee, Gregory Harbaugh, Steven Smith, Joseph Tanner
1 video
- NASA Goddard
Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
Hubble is a 2.4-metre telescope in low Earth orbit, built so that astronauts could service it. NASA and ESA built it to see the universe without the blur of the atmosphere, and to settle how fast the universe was expanding.
3 videos
- DCODE by Discovery
- NASA Goddard
- Primal Space