Name: Gibson, Robert Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 5

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-41B February 3, 1984 - Challenger February 11, 1984 - Challenger
2. STS-61C January 12, 1986 - Columbia January 18, 1986 - Columbia
3. STS-27 December 2, 1988 - Atlantis December 6, 1988 - Atlantis
4. STS-47 September 12, 1992 - Endeavour September 20, 1992 - Endeavour
5. STS-71 June 27, 1995 - Atlantis July 7, 1995 - Atlantis

Space Flights Descriptions
1. STS-41B Deployed Westar VI for Western Union Telegraph and Palapa B-2 for Indonesia
Failure of PAM stages left both satellites in low Earth orbit. The satellites were recovered during the STS-51A mission. Shuttle Pallet Satellite 1A (SPAS-1A) became the first satellite to be refurbished and flown again.
2. STS-61C Deployed RCA SATCOM Ku-1 for RCA Americom
3. STS-27 Classified military mission 3
4. STS-47 Spacelab-J Mission (SL-J)
Dedicated Japanese Spacelab mission
5. STS-71 Shuttle-Mir Docking Mission 1
Atlantis docked with Mir from June 29, 1995 to July 4, 1995.

Return to Master List American Astronauts Five Spaceflights
Space Shuttle Program - 1984 / 1986 / 1988 / 1992 Shuttle-Mir Program - 1995

Updated - June 5, 2006