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HOOT GIBSON'S HANGAR PODCAST

All New Podcasts from USA’s Greatest Living Aviator!“Hoot Gibson’s Hangar”. The podcast will be a weekly visit with Robert "Hoot" Gibson, and his fascinating guests from across the entire aviation spectrum.Hear Hoot’s first-person accounts of his combat missions, his time at Miramar’s Top Gun School, his experiences at the Navy Patuxent River Test Pilot School, his classified Department of Defense Space Shuttle missions, his hair-raising flights as a Formula I and Unlimited Class Air Racer, his years in the left seat of a Southwest Airlines 737, his descriptions of precedent-setting aviation cases in which he’s testified, and his timely commentary on current aviation events. The most fascinating and knowledgeable names in aviation and aerospace hang out in “Hoot’s Gibson’s Hangar."

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HOOT GIBSON'S HANGAR PODCAST

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March 13, 2023 • Scott • Season 1 • Episode 3

"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.

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

Don’t miss a single episode. Video podcast air exclusively on Air2AirTV and aviation’s premier Youtube channel - Dronescapes, producing aircraft documentaries, exclusive stories and interviews from veterans, pilots and aces, in their own words. WWII missions, Vietnam's stories and much more!

Hoot Gibson’s Hangar audio podcast can be downloaded from all top podcast directories: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn Alexa, Overcast, PocketCast, Castro, Castbox, Podchaser and many more.

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