Richard Tousey (May 18, 1908 – April 15, 1997)[1] was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of the sun from space.
In 1960 he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA. He won the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1963[2], the Eddington Medal in 1964, and the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 1966.
Richard Tousey was working for the Naval Research Laboratory for most of his life. He built cameras to put into captured V-2 rockets, these cameras took pictures of the sun and other Stellar masses. When Richard Tousey was not working he studied nature and he liked to take pictures and audio recordings of Birds and trees. He was a great pioneer in the field of space discovery. In his later years he was a kind caring man, devoted to his family.