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... Enterprise was being prepared for Approach and Landing Tests at Edwards Air Force Base California . The Space Shuttle Main Engines were being tested at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The flight software for ... a spectacular landing on the lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base. I was on the TV set with Frank Reynolds during the entire broadcast coverage of STS-1’s landing. I was out of sight ...

... to us. Then in 1973 we inherited another Air Force program, the Zero-G KC-135, which the Air Force had been running at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . They were in the process of phasing out ... modified it, and then we supported the Approach and Landing Test, ALT Program out at Edwards Air Force Base , which took place almost the entire year of 1977. So you can see it was ... kind of butting heads, but fortunately I knew General Rushworth, who was running the U.S. Air Force flight test center at the time and so did Slayton, and he said bring it ...

... 115 orbits of the Earth in 175 hours, Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base , California, on December 9, 1992. With the completion of his fourth ... Air Training Command Outstanding Flight Safety Award (1970); the Air Force Commendation Medal (1972); the Air Force Institute of Technology's Mervin E. Gross Award (1974); Who's Who Among Black Americans (1975 to 1977); the Air Force ...

... Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. He attended the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base California, in 1975, and then served as a test pilot with the 6512th Test Squadron located at Edwards in ... command the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base , California. In August 1992, Gardner retired from the Air Force and returned to NASA to direct the joint U.S. and Russian Shuttle-Mir Program. Dec ...

Edward I. Fendell Interviewed by Kevin M. Rusnak Houston, Texas – ... got assigned up to McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey , which at that time was a dinky little base, which now is a massive base. Then after being there ... s start this way. We had brought on board a few Air Force people to start training in manned space flight. There was a program plan called MOL, Manned Orbital Lab, that the Air Force ...

... and reading. He is conversant in Japanese and Russian. His parents, Edward and Alma Fincke, reside in Emsworth, Pennsylvania. Renita's parents, Rupesh and Probha Saikia, formerly of Assam, India, reside ... Angeles Air Force Base. As a flight test engineer at Edwards and Eglin Air Force Bases, he flew in F-16 and F-15 aircraft. In January 1996, he reported to the Gifu Test Center, Gifu Air Base, Japan ...

... joint services programs. It was an aircraft, carrier-based, land-based, and everything. It later sort of folded up, but—and worked with some Air Force people and also some NASA people. There were ... they made those drops out at Edwards Air Force Base California , they learned some things about some of the coefficients and so forth that updated that simulator, and that’s what we used as really ...

... .S. Air Forces, Europe (in Germany) from 1987-1990 as an instructor pilot for F-4 and F-16 aircrew in the tactics of surface-to-air missile suppression. In 1991 he reported to Edwards Air Force Base for year long training as a test pilot in high performance military aircraft. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the Test Wing at the Air Force Developmental Test Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida ...

... F-86s and F-100s. He attended the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base , California, in 1959. White was later assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as an experimental test pilot with ... 12 scientific and medical experiments. He received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and the U.S. Air Force Senior Astronaut Wings for this Flight. On March 21, 1966, he was named as ...

... text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Edward G. Gibson header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Nov 8 1936 ... in flight training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, and earned his Air Force wings. Since then, he has flown ... of earth resources observations data using Skylab's earth resources experiment package camera and sensor ...

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