Ken Hock Ham Biography

Ken “Hock” Ham is a former naval officer and aviator test pilot aerospace engineer (graduate of the US Naval Academy) and NASA astronaut.
As a military pilot Hock was the lead carrier suitability test pilot for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet conducted combat missions as an air wing strike leader over Bosnia North Iraq and Afghanistan and was an F/A-18 demonstration pilot. He has over 6000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft types with over 300 shipboard and 300 land-based arrested landings.
While at NASA he served a crewmember on the KC-135 was an ascent/entry CAPCOM (including for Return To Flight STS-114 after the Columbia disaster) was an International Space Station (ISS) CAPCOM and lead astronaut for the space shuttle closeout crew/astronaut support personnel. Ken’s first assignment to fly in space came as the Pilot of Discovery STS-124 in June 2008 which delivered and assembled the Japanese Pressurized Module on ISS. Hock then served as Commander of Atlantis STS-132 which delivered the Russian MRM-1 module to ISS. During his last two years at NASA Ken served as a T-38N flight instructor & high altitude research pilot on the WB-57F.

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