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Former NASA chief astronaut Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson crewed on five space shuttle missions, with STS-61C aboard Columbia his first as mission commander. Its goal was to put the first Ku-band communications satellite into geostationary orbit. What made the Jan. 6, 1986, launch, already twice delayed...
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