Sally Ride Husband: Who was Steven Hawley?

Steven Hawley is a former NASA astronaut and the ex husband of American astronaut and physicist Sally Ride. The former couple got married in 1982 and divorced in 1987 after 5 years of marriage.

Steven Hawley is know for flying on one of  five U.S. Space Shuttle flights. He is professor of physics and astronomy and director of engineering physics at the University of Kansas.

Hawley is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the Pacific Astronomical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sigma Pi Sigma, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to being hired by NASA in 1978, Hawley worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Chile’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas.

Steven Hawley logged a total of 770 hours and 27 minutes in five space flights. He served as a mission specialist on STS-41D in 1984, STS-61C in 1986, STS-31 in 1990, STS-82 in 1997 and STS-93 in 1999. Hawley was the last member of NASA Astronaut Group 8 to make a space flight.