Jul 6, 2012 · Tour of Duty STS-27 is finally upon us. After the 32-month delay before the launch of Discovery in September, the two months prior to the launch of Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center seems like a mere turn of the page in the NASA flight log.

Jul 7, 2012 · STS-27 Mission Specialist Mike Mullane echoed Hoot Gibson, “Well, you’re all going to get tired of hearing the same thing, but I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the opportunity to fly on a beautiful rocket ship and, like Hoot says, it wasn’t us going out there and doing that, we just had the superb and wonderful ...

Mar 6, 2020 · STS-27 Commander Robert “Hoot” Gibson presents a POW-MIA flag carried aboard the December mission to the Veterans of the Vietnam War in Crystal River, Florida. Jim Shields, of the veterans group, says the flag should awaken interest in thousands of U.S. prisoners of war and those missing in action from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Mar 24, 2020 · Space Shuttle secret mission STS-27, just seconds from disaster. Ger the story from astronaut Hoot Gibson. STS-27 was the 27th NASA Space Shuttle mission, and the third flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Launching on December 2, 1988, on a four-day mission, it was the second shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of January 1986.

Oct 25, 2009 · On a related STS 27 topic. I always thought that when a crew member has an official NASA portrait taken with an EVA suit, it was because they would (or have) take(n) part in that activity. I know some photos were taken after a mission. Here is an interesting photo of Jerry Ross for the STS 27 flight:

Jul 7, 2012 · PAO: Altitude 21,000 feet, range twelve miles… when Atlantis reaches 15,000 feet she’ll begin the final approach onto glide slope… now eleven miles from the runway, 18,000 feet… velocity 500 feet per second, altitude 15,000 feet, range eight miles… flight dynamics officer reports Atlantis looks good rolling onto final approach…

Oct 25, 2018 · Re: STS-27 tile damage and almost burn-through « Reply #2 on: 10/24/2018 03:23 pm » That photo is actually the Structural Test Article (STA) 099, later refurbished and flown as OV-099, Challenger.

Jul 7, 2012 · Tuesday, December 6, 1988 (Landing Day) – “We had taken seven hundred bullets…” At 11:15 a.m. EST on December 6, STS-27 became the longest military flight in shuttle history, surpassing the four days, one hour, 44 minutes that the same orbiter flew on Mission 51-J in October 1985.

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Jul 7, 2012 · PAO: This is shuttle launch control at T-9 minutes and counting. The countdown events are now being controlled by the ground launch sequencer from now until T-31 seconds, when we begin the switch-over to the onboard redundant set launch sequencer.