Thursday, August 22, 2013

C. Gordon Fullerton dies at 76; space shuttle astronaut, test pilot

An astronaut on the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles, Gordon Fullerton flew cutting-edge aircraft until he was 70.



C. Gordon Fullerton waited years for his chance to go into space but less than six minutes after the space shuttle Challenger took off in 1985, he was starting to rethink it.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/qvf55Izbb3g/la-me-gordon-fullerton-20130823,0,4733583.story

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