The Man Who Can Fly Anything. EPISODE 5 From Pilot To Top Gun, To Space Shuttle Astronaut

The man who can fly anything. Hoot Gibson, a pilot's story.
From pilot to Top Gun to Space Shuttle Astronaut, to commercial pilot, to air racer, to RC enthusiast. Listen to the story of a great American, an icon of aviation, and a national hero
EP 5. Hoot recalls more events from his outstanding pilot's career and also gets to interview another astronaut, a person very close to him
HOOT GIBSON SERIES SEASON 1:
EPISODE 01: • The Real TOPGUN | Robe...
EPISODE 01 EXTENDED: • The Man Who Can Fly An...
EPISODE 02: • Seconds From Disaster ...
EPISODE 03: • Seconds From Disaster ...
EPISODE 04: • Hoot Gibson's Hangar #...
EPISODE 05: • The Man Who Can Fly An...
EPISODE 06: • The Man Who Can Fly An...
EPISODE 07: • The Man Who Can Fly An...
EPISODE 08: • TRAINING AND COMBAT. H...
EPISODE 09: • Shooting MiGs In Vietn...
EPISODE 10: • From The F-14 Tomcat T...
EPISODE 11: • The Space Shuttle Chal...
EPISODE 12: • Investigating Accident...
EPISODE 13: • Fatal Accident | Hoot ...
EPISODE 14: COMING SOON
FULL PLAYLIST: • The Man Who Can Fly An...
The Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104), at the time the youngest in NASA's shuttle fleet, made its third flight on a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It deployed a single satellite, USA-34. NASA archival information has identified USA-34 as Lacrosse 1, a side-looking radar, all-weather surveillance satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Atlantis' Thermal Protection System tiles sustained extensive damage during the flight. Ablative insulating material from the right-hand solid rocket booster nose cap had hit the orbiter about 85 seconds into the flight, as seen in footage of the ascent. The STS-27 crew also commented that white material was observed on the windshield at various times during the ascent. The crew inspected the shuttle's impacted starboard side using the shuttle's Canadarm, but the limited resolution and range of the cameras made it impossible to determine the full extent of the tile damage.
The problem was compounded by the fact that the crew was prohibited from using their standard method of sending images to ground control due to the classified nature of the mission. The crew was forced to use a slow, encrypted transmission method, likely causing the images NASA engineers received to be of poor quality, causing them to think the damage was actually "just lights and shadows". They told the crew the damage did not look any more severe than on past missions.
One report describes the crew as "infuriated" that Mission Control Center seemed unconcerned. When Gibson saw the damage he thought to himself, "We are going to die"; he and others did not believe that the shuttle would survive reentry. Gibson advised the crew to relax because "No use dying all tensed-up", he said, but if instruments indicated that the shuttle was disintegrating, Gibson planned to "tell mission control what I thought of their analysis" in the remaining seconds before his death.
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[@Dronescapes]

Watch ALL Hoot Gibson's episodes at: czcams.com/play/PLBI4gRjPKfnO5CF3r1r0FHXLAytdsO-J-.html

[@brandywarthman6174]

❤ listening to Rhea tell her story!!

[@danielfradd802]

Up until listening and reading about Hoot (and Rhea), Chris Hadfield and the Merc 7, i never thought there was anyone in modern aviation like Bob H and Chuck Y... The contributions these people have made in aviation and can share just blows my head off...True inspiration and awe!

[@Maddogg414]

It’s nice to see how people can dream and make their dreams come true. Hope the young can see this and learn from this. 😊

[@faktisletztenendes]

What a fascinating couple! That passion for aviation is certainly not the only thing they have in common but I'm quite sure it helps a lot to know what your spouse is talking about, probably most time of the day 😏 So cool that they can even share the Shuttle experience with each other! And thanks to Mrs Gibson I finally know what that commander/pilot thing on board of the orbiter in fact was all about... 😁
Had to laugh hard about that dead pilot story 😂

[@julieritt]

I knew as soon as I saw the title that this was about Hoot. Lol. That man flies like any given plane is merely an extension of his body.

[@Dronescapes]

👍

[@floatthecreek]

Hoot, are y'all going to Oshkosh this July? I'm flying up in a King Air, not a 150, LOL. You two fly safe.

[@pickititllneverheal9016]

Great life story from you both. Y'all are truly blessed.

[@Dronescapes]

Thank you so much!

[@cfneal1459]

@@Dronescapes 29:15 -- awesome sound affect!
Space-time continuum being torn asunder!

[@joebeach7759]

A T38 goes faster than a Cessna 150 at idle...

[@andrewnagel6322]

You didn't show a picture of Susan Still as a female pilot. After that interview Rhea should make him sleep in the garage again. I remember hearing that some of the astronauts can't believe they got married.