# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-hieb
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:54:53.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-hieb"
name: "Richard Hieb"
slug: "richard-hieb"
description: "Richard James Hieb is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. After leaving NASA he worked at AlliedSignal and Orbital before spending 14 years as an executive at Lockheed Martin. He is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Hieb.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.49
  momentum:             5.416666666666665
  historical:           12.67779066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard J. Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%B1"
    title: "Ричард Хиб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_James_Hieb"
    title: "Richard James Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%A8"
    title: "ریچارد هیب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hieb"
    title: "Richard J. Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_James_Hieb"
    title: "Richard James Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Hieb"
    title: "Richard J. Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hieb"
    title: "Richard Hieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%B1%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Хиб, Ричард Джеймс"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump