Location: United States
Member Since: May 31, 2010

Kenneth Cockrell


Biography

Kenneth Cockrell grew up in a small town in Texas and spent most of his high school years in Victoria, Australia.

He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas. Never working as a professional engineer, he joined the Navy to become a pilot. He spent fifteen years in the Navy, flying fighter and attack airplanes from aircraft carriers. He was trained at the prestigious US Naval Test Pilot School, and served as a test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland.

He resigned from the Navy in order to go to work for NASA as a Research Pilot at Ellington Field in Houston. In 1990, he was selected as a Pilot Astronaut and flew five missions on the Space Shuttle; three of them as Commander.

He now serves again as a Research Pilot at Ellington Field. He flies and writes and lives in the Houston area.

Books

Southern Cross    by Kenneth Cockrell
Price: $4.99 USD. 209370 words. Published on June 1, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Paul Jumper is beginning the dream of becomming a Navy pilot. But as he goes through training, he gets unwittingly involved in a drug smuggling operation and falls in love with a woman he ultimately can't have. As a young pilot in the fleet, he makes another misstep that could end his career. Finally, every past mistake descends on him at once and he makes a gut-wrenching decision: To run!

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