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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E9 Apr 24, 2023

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“As soon as I saw orders to F-4 Phantoms, I knew that and particularly since I was going to the West Coast, I knew that we would be taking part in the Vietnam Conflict. It wasn't a popular war. Those of us that lived through it, at that period of time knew that the country was somewhat torn apart by it. But I had signed on to be a Naval Officer and when you sign on to be a Naval Officer, you're going to receive orders and you will follow those orders. But, I knew there was a good chance that I'd wind up in Vietnam and sure enough I did. I guess I was fairly apprehensive the whole time that I was flying in combat. And I guess there's good reason to feel that way. Because I'm there to cause a lot of damage and a lot of harm, and therefore they would like to damage me. And so that's something that's that I guess it's pretty apparent to you and I was 25 years old at that time.” -Hoot Gibson.

Hoot Gibson’s Hangar, aviation’s premier podcast, hosted by America’s premier aviator, Hoot Gibson, “The Man That Can Fly Anything."

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E8 Apr 17, 2023

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“I guess I was fairly apprehensive the whole time that I was flying in combat and I guess there's good reason to feel that way, I'm there to cause a lot of damage and a lot of harm and therefore they would like to damage me, and I was 25 years old at that time.” -Hoot Gibson.

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 Ep7 Apr 10, 2023

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“And now SpaceX with the Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 vehicle are carrying our astronauts from American soil once again, up to the International Space Station. So we had an expression early in the space shuttle program that was Launched Fever. Catch it! I think we are catching launch fever once again, because we can go to Cape Canaveral and we can watch American rockets, launching Americans into space once again. Exciting times!” -Hoot Gibson.

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E6 Apr 03, 2023

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The TELESAT-l (ANIK C-1) communications satellite was deployed attached to the payload assist module (PAM-D) motor. SYNCOM IV-3 (also known as LEASAT-3) was also deployed but the spacecraft sequencer failed to initiate the antenna deployment, spin up and ignition of perigee kick motor. The mission was extended two days to make certain the sequencer start lever was in the proper position. Griggs and Hoffman performed a space walk to attach flyswatter devices to the remote manipulator system. Seddon engaged LEASAT lever using the remote manipulator system but the post deployment sequence did not begin. After re-entry and during the landing phase, a higher than normal cross wind had developed, causing extensive brake damage resulting in a blown tire prompting the implementation of nose wheel steering on the shuttle.

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E5 Mar 27, 2023

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"At the time, I was the Chief Astronaut for NASA. And I'll never forget, I'm driving to work one morning in my car. And I heard on the radio the announcer says here's something interesting, as of this morning, Dr. Rhea Seddon, who's in space aboard the space shuttle, Columbia, has more time in space than her husband, the chief astronaut, Hoot Gibson. I remember my first thought was, hey, this isn't news, this is drivel. Well, anyway, it was an interesting statistic, because at the time that I was chief astronaut, I had only flown four times. So I had 26 and a half days in space. She now had 30 days in space that morning. So she had more time in space than I did. But it made a funny and interesting story. So I wound up flying a fifth mission after that, and so then I was able to surpass her and wind up with 36 and a half days in space." -Hoot Gibson.

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E4 Mar 20, 2023

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“I arrived back home from work at NASA for the day. I'm walking through my garage and Holy Smokes! here is this big red shipping container with white and black letters on the side of it that says EAGLES. Joe Walsh had sent me a Rolland Stereo Chorus amplifier, and probably even more valuable than that, the shipping container that says EAGLES on it. I'll bet if I showed up at the Hard Rock Cafe or put this on eBay and said, Hey, what's this worth? I'll bet it would be an impressive number. It's probably worth more than all my guitars put together. But it's a treasure. I'm not going to put it on eBay or get rid of it. And it was a gift from Joe Walsh of the Eagles.” Hoot Gibson.”

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E3 Mar 13, 2023

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"We were a top secret classified department of defense mission. So, to this day, if I told you what we carried in the shuttle, you could never leave this hangar. One of the fascinating things about it was that my crew and I got briefed into what our capabilities in space are, in terms of the military, and again, it's not weaponry. After we had gone to orbit and on the first day, we deployed a major new intelligence satillite for the United States. And that's about as much as I'm allowed to say about it. Even to this day, this was 1988. So what's that 34 years ago?" -Hoot Gibson.

STS-71, First Shuttle-Mir Docking

Atlantis launched on June 27, 1995, on the STS-71 mission to carry out the third goal, the historic first Shuttle docking with Mir. Aboard Atlantis were Commander Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson, Pilot Charles J. Precourt, and Mission Specialists Ellen L. Baker, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Anatoli Y. Solovyev, and Nikolai M. Budarin. After docking, Solovyev and Budarin would remain aboard the station as the Mir-19 crew, while Dezhurov, Strekalov, and Thagard would return to Earth aboard Atlantis, completing the first crew exchange in the Space Shuttle program. In its payload bay, Atlantis carried a Spacelab module outfitted with equipment to conduct biomedical investigations on the returning crewmembers. Two days after launch, Atlantis began its approach to Mir, a procedure rehearsed earlier in the year during STS-63, the Shuttle-Mir rendezvous (or near-Mir) mission. Gibson steered Atlantis to a smooth docking at Mir’s Kristall module as the two spacecraft flew 250 miles above the Lake Baikal region of eastern Russia, forming the world’s heaviest spacecraft up to that time – nearly half a million pounds.

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E2 Mar 10, 2023

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"STS 27 was my was my third launch and it was only the second launch after the Challenger accident. Well, I will never forget, we maneuvered the arm and Mike Mullane was my boom arm operator. So he moved the arm over there and we brought up the television image of the right wing. And I looked at what I was seeing and I said to myself, we are going to die." -Hoot Gibson.

Thirty-Five years ago, at 9:30 a.m. EST on 2 December 1988, Atlantis rocketed into crystal-blue Florida skies to begin the second shuttle mission in the wake of the Challenger tragedy. Two months earlier, her sister Discovery had brought the fleet back to active service and the task of the five STS-27 astronauts—Commander Robert “Hoot” Gibson, Pilot Guy Gardner and Mission Specialists Mike Mullane, Jerry Ross and Bill Shepherd—was to deploy a classified payload on behalf of the Department of Defense. Although that objective apparently proceeded without significant incident, the mysterious flight of STS-27 earned a place in the history books, when the hands of fate unexpectedly turned against the astronauts and brought them within a hair’s breadth of disaster.

Hoot’s Hangar, aviation’s premier podcast, hosted by America’s premier aviator, Hoot Gibson.

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast S1 E1 Jul 28, 2022

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Hoot Gibson's Hangar Vodcast/Podcast Trailer Jun 27, 2022

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All New Audio Podcasts from USA’s Greatest Living Aviator!
Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson is an aeronautical engineer, a fighter pilot (300 carrier landings in Southeast Asia; F-4’s & F-14’s), an astronaut (five Shuttle Missions, 36 days in space, Chief NASA Astronaut), an airline captain (Southwest Airlines), a homebuilder (Cassutt Formula I pylon racer), an Unlimited Class Air Race Champion and a highly sought-after aviation litigation expert witness. He is, simply, America’s Greatest Living Aviator.
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