Edward George Gibson

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Edward Gibson
Edward Gibson
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 28, 1965
( 4th NASA Group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: November 16, 1973
Landing: February 8, 1974
Time in space: 84d 1h 15m
EVA inserts: 3
EVA total duration: 15h 21m
retired on November 1, 1982
Space flights

Edward George Gibson (born November 8, 1936 in Buffalo , New York ) is a retired American astronaut .

Gibson studied engineering and received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Rochester in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960 and a PhD in 1964 , both from the California Institute of Technology . He also received honorary doctorates from both the University of Rochester and Wagner College in New York in 1974 .

Astronaut activity

In June 1965, Gibson was selected by NASA as a science astronaut. He then completed a 53-week flight training course at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona .

He was a member of the support teams and liaison spokesman for the Apollo 12 moon mission. He was also involved in the development of the Skylab space station . As part of his preparation for the Skylab program, Gibson studied solar physics and wrote The Quiet Sun , which is still a reference manual for solar physics today.

On November 16, 1973, Gibson started the Skylab 4 mission as a science pilot on the third and final manned flight to the Skylab space station. During this longest space flight to date, he was accompanied by Commander Gerald P. Carr and the pilot William R. Pogue . They carried out numerous experiments and extensive earth and solar observations. Gibson spent a total of over 15 hours outside of the space station on three spacecraft missions. After 84 days, Skylab 4 landed on Earth again on February 8, 1974. The record set by Gibson and his teammates lasted four years.

In December 1974, Gibson left NASA to continue research on the Skylab solar observation data at the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles. From March 1976 he was a consultant at ERNO Raumfahrttechnik GmbH in Germany for one year . In March 1977 he returned to the NASA astronaut office and worked there in the field of selection and training of astronaut applicants.

According to NASA

In October 1990, he started his own consulting firm, Gibson International Corp., worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and TRW, and served as President of the Oregon Museum of Science and History. He is currently Senior Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation and heads their EROS Data Center.

Private

Edward Gibson and his wife Julie Anne have four children.

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personal data
SURNAME Gibson, Edward George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York