2012年7月7日 · STS-27 Mission Specialist Mike Mullane echoed Hoot Gibson, “Well, you’re all going to get tired of hearing the same thing, but I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the opportunity to fly on a beautiful rocket ship and, like Hoot says, it wasn’t us going out there and doing that, we just had the superb and wonderful ...

2020年3月6日 · The suspect material, known as Marshall Sprayable Ablator (MSA), was used in its original formulation for nose caps up to and including the STS-27 mission. Following fabrication of the STS-27 nose caps, changes were made in the material’s properties, manufacturing process and application. The result was an improved product designated MSA-2.

2020年3月24日 · Space Shuttle secret mission STS-27, just seconds from disaster. Ger the story from astronaut Hoot Gibson. STS-27 was the 27th NASA Space Shuttle mission, and the third flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Launching on December 2, 1988, on a four-day mission, it was the second shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of January 1986.

2012年7月6日 · Tour of Duty STS-27 is finally upon us. After the 32-month delay before the launch of Discovery in September, the two months prior to the launch of Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center seems like a mere turn of the page in the NASA flight log.

2018年10月25日 · (see Section 4.2 on page 16 of STS-27R-OV-104-TPS Post-Flight Assessment.pdf) Replacement of the L-band antenna panel was enough since no substantial heating damage to the underlying aluminium orbiter structure happened (by luck, since a missing tile in any other area without such strengthened panel …

2009年10月25日 · On a related STS 27 topic. I always thought that when a crew member has an official NASA portrait taken with an EVA suit, it was because they would (or have) take(n) part in that activity. I know some photos were taken after a mission. Here is an interesting photo of Jerry Ross for the STS 27 flight:

2012年7月7日 · PAO: Altitude 21,000 feet, range twelve miles… when Atlantis reaches 15,000 feet she’ll begin the final approach onto glide slope… now eleven miles from the runway, 18,000 feet… velocity 500 feet per second, altitude 15,000 feet, range eight miles… flight dynamics officer reports Atlantis looks good rolling onto final approach…

2012年7月7日 · Tuesday, December 6, 1988 (Landing Day) – “We had taken seven hundred bullets…” At 11:15 a.m. EST on December 6, STS-27 became the longest military flight in shuttle history, surpassing the four days, one hour, 44 minutes that the same orbiter flew on Mission 51-J in October 1985.

2009年7月31日 · As for the Ross-Shepherd spacewalk on STS-27, we still can’t say for certain that it happened. There is another clue, however. On February 14, 2001, astronauts Tom Jones and Robert Curbeam were in the middle of their third spacewalk of space station assembly mission STS-98.

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