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Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Michael L 2012 ROTARY NATIONAL AWARD FOR SPACE ACHIEVEMENT MICHAEL L. COATS 2012 National Space Trophy Recipient Rotary National Award for Space Achievement The 2012 National Space behind them in base housing. She kept insisting I write to Trophy winner is former this young lady. To make my mother happy, I finally did so. astronaut, Captain, USN (Ret.), I eventually asked for a picture. Needless to say, it was an and NASA Johnson Space Center unforgettable day when the picture arrived, and I realized she was the same girl I had seen at the pool two years (JSC) Director Michael L. Coats. earlier!” Her name was Diane Carson. As director of JSC, Coats is Diane’s father, an Air Force dentist, had been transferred responsible for a team of more from Amarillo to Riverside. The seemingly predestined than 3,200 civil servants and an couple corresponded Mike Coats annual budget in excess of $4.5 cross-country for four (RNASA photo) billion dollars. years. They married at Tinker AFB in Father’s Influence Oklahoma City in 1969. “My mother always Coats was born into a military family in 1946 in enjoyed reminding me she ‘found’ my wife for Riverside, California. His father, Col. Loyd A. Coats, USAF, me,” Coats said. “But,” was the biggest single influence on his life. “He was an Air he added, “I would Force bomber pilot, flying B-17’s with the 8th Air Force in remind her I had stated WWII and then B-29’s in Korea,” Coats told RNASA. “His my intent to marry eyesight deteriorated. He then became commanding officer Diane two years before of the Maintenance Squadron for the SR-71 spy plane. He Mike and Diane Coats, 1969 she ‘found’ her!” also had a tour in Thailand during the Vietnam War.” (Photo courtesy Mike Coats) Coats graduated from Coats’ mother, Clarice “Jan” Coats of Oklahoma City, Ramona High School stayed home with Michael, his brother and three sisters, in 1964. “I was blessed with a long string of outstanding and somehow found time to become a competitive bridge teachers in Riverside,” Coats said. “I was well prepared to compete academically when I entered the Naval Academy.” player. During his plebe year, Coats’ father visited him in “My early childhood obsession with landing planes on Annapolis. His father had “lost a lot of friends in each of the aircraft carriers came about because I wanted to make my wars and seemed reluctant to tell us his ‘war stories.’” So parents proud and still do something a bit different than my Coats hadn’t fully appreciated his father’s accomplishments father,” Coats said. “Becoming a Navy pilot was my goal until that visit. “He was in his dress uniform wearing all from a very young age. his medals,” Coats remembered. “Every midshipman and officer did a double take and stared at his chest full of Love at First Sight medals. I flew 315 combat missions in Vietnam and logged over 400 carrier landings, but I don’t feel like I came close The other great love of his life was also settled at a to measuring up to his record during three wars. He was young age, in the summer before his senior year of high the hardest working man I’ve ever seen and retired as a full school. “We were with my father at Amarillo AFB when colonel despite never having gone to college.” I first saw Diane at the base swimming pool,” Coats said. “Cupid was on target, and I walked home that day and quite First Flight seriously told my mother I just saw the girl I was going to marry. Instead of laughing as I expected, my mother said, In 1968, Coats received his B.S. degree from the Naval ‘Tell me all about her.’ I hadn’t yet spoken to her, so I was Academy. He earned his pilot’s wings the next year. “I had embarrassed I didn’t know her name, or even the sound of never flown a plane until I reported to Navy flight training her voice. I was determined to introduce myself the next at Pensacola,” Coats said. “My first solo, in the Navy’s T-34 day at the pool, but she was with her boyfriend all day. I had basic trainer, was a bit of a surprise. To say my heart was to return to Riverside to start football practice, so I thought pounding is an understatement. I can understand why it’s I had lost my future wife before I even knew her name.” not uncommon for a student to forget about landing again “During my first year at the Naval Academy, my to pick up his instructor and just flies back to home base mother kept writing me about a wonderful girl who lived (continued next page) 3 MICHAEL L. COATS 2012 National Space Trophy Recipient Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (continued from page 3) been at the Naval Academy together, alone. Fortunately, I didn’t strand my instructor out in the on the same ship boondocks, which is not particularly career enhancing!” and airwing while After earning his wings, he served aboard the USS flying missions in Kitty Hawk in Southeast Asia. He then served as a flight Vietnam, in the instructor with the A-7E Readiness Training Squadron in same Navy Test Lemoore, California from 1972 until he was selected for the Pilot School class, U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland and then shared an in 1973. After serving as project officer and test pilot for the office as the two A-7 and A-4 aircraft, he became an instructor at Patuxent. spin instructors During this time, he also earned a master’s degree in science at the Naval Test and technology from George Washington University. He Pilot School,” Coats during STS-29 then earned a master’s in aeronautical engineering in 1979 Coats recalled. (NASA photo, 1989) from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, “We discussed at California. great length whether to apply for the first class of Shuttle astronauts. I decided the night before the deadline to apply Astronaut Experience ‘just to see how far I’d get,’ and Mike decided he wanted to wait and see what the ‘peacetime’ Navy was like.” Smith Coats was selected as an applied two years later and joined the next astronaut class. astronaut in 1978. He served as “I’ve been determined since then to do what I could to Capcom in Mission Control for make human spaceflight as safe as possible,” Coats said. STS-4 and 5 in 1982. “While it’s important and inevitable that the human race Coats first flew as pilot of STS will leave planet Earth and begin to explore the universe, 41D in 1984, the maiden flight of there are no shortcuts to space. We have to take the time and Discovery. Henry Hartsfield was expend the resources to do it right.” commander and Judy Resnick, Coats commanded STS-29 in March of 1989 with Steve Hawley, Richard Mullane, crewmembers John Blaha, James Bagian, James Buchli, and Charlie Walker were his and Robert Springer. After this flight of Discovery which fellow crewmembers. This six- deployed a Tracking Data Relay Satellite, Coats became day flight launched August 30, The crew of STS-41D the acting chief of the Astronaut Office. (NASA photo, 1984) 1984 and deployed three satellites The first unclassified DoD flight, STS-39, was Coat’s (SBS-D, SYNCOM IV-2, and TELSTAR 3C), operated the final flight, also on Discovery. The primary customer for Continuous Flow Electrophoresis experiment, tested a solar this flight was Mike Griffin, then with the Strategic Defense wing (OAST-1), and filmed an IMAX movie. The crew Initiative (now Missile Defense Agency). “I consider earned the nickname “Icebusters” after removing vent ice with the robotic arm. Coats was selected commander of STS 61-H. That mission was canceled following the Challenger accident in January 1986. “The Challenger tragedy was simply devastating,” Coats said. “I had lost several good friends in Vietnam and at the Naval Air Test Center, but losing so many close friends at once was hard to comprehend and accept. The STS-39 crew prelaunch breakfast first six years in the astronaut office had been like a dream (NASA photo, 1991) come true. We were working 12 to 14 hour days and loving it. When Challenger happened, it was like a sledgehammer myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with blow reminding us that spaceflight is a difficult, risky, and Mike for more than 20 years,” Coats said. “I quickly came unforgiving business.” to appreciate Coats grieved for all his fellow astronauts, but most (continued on page 34) especially for Challenger’s pilot, Mike Smith. “We had 4 MAYOR ANNISE PARKER MILES O’BRIEN Rotary National Award for Space Achievement MAYOR ANNISE MILES O’BRIEN PARKER Master of Ceremonies Welcome Speaker Former RNASA Space The RNASA Foundation is Communicator Award Winner pleased to have the Honorable Miles O’Brien brings years of Annise D. Parker, Mayor of media experience and a rocket Houston, welcome our guests this Annise Parker blast of good humor to his duties Miles O’Brien evening. (RNASA image, 2010) as Master of Ceremonies for our (RNASA image, 2011) As Executive Officer, the Mayor annual event. administers oaths and signs all motions, resolutions, and O’Brien owns Miles O’Brien Productions, LLC. Based ordinances passed by City Council. She also presides in Washington, D.C., the company creates stories for over City Council meetings, presents an annual budget media outlets including the PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, for approval, and is responsible for advising Council of Discovery Science Channel, National Science Foundation, the City’s financial condition.
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