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Edward Gibson
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Edward Gibson |
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Born on: |
8 Nov 1936 |
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Join NASA in: |
28 Jun 1965 |
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Current status: |
Retired 1 Nov 1982 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Skylab 4 |
Pilot |
16.11.1973 - 08.02.1974 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Eward Gibson was selected as a
scientist-astronaut by NASA in June 1965. He completed a
53-week course in flight training at Williams Air Force
Base, Arizona, and earned his Air Force wings. Since then,
he has flown helicopters and the T-38.
He served as a member of the astronaut support crew and as
a capcom for the Apollo 12 lunar landing. He has also
participated in the design and testing of many elements of
the Skylab space station.
Gibson was the science-pilot of Skylab 4 (third and
final manned visit to the Skylab space station), launched
November 16, 1973, and concluded February 8, 1974. This
was the longest manned flight (84 days 1 hour 15 minutes)
in history of manned space exploration to date. Gibson
was accompanied on the record-setting 34.5-million-mile
flight by Gerald Carr (commander) and William Pogue
(pilot). They successfully completed 56 experiments, 26
science demonstrations, 15 subsystem detailed objectives,
and 13 student investigations during their 1,214
revolutions of the earth. They also acquired a wide
variety of earth resources observations data using
Skylab's earth resources experiment package camera and
sensor array. Gibson was the crewman primarily
responsible for the 338 hours of Apollo Telescope Mount
operation, which made extensive observations of solar
processes.
Until March 1978, Gibson and his Skylab-4 teammates
held the world record for individual time in space: 2,017
hours 15 minutes 32 seconds, and Dr. Gibson logged 15
hours and 17 minutes in three EVAs outside the orbital
workshop.
Gibson resigned from NASA in December 1974 to do research
on Skylab solar physics data as a senior staff scientist
with the Aerospace Corporation of Los Angeles, California.
Beginning in March 1976, he served for 1 year as a
consultant to ERNO Raumfahrttechnik GmbH, in West Germany,
on Spacelab design under the sponsorship of a U. S. Senior
Scientist Award form the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In March 1977, Gibson returned to the Astronaut Office
Astronaut candidate selection and training as Chief of the
Scientist-Astronaut Candidates.
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