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RIP.
RIP Gordon. You and your fellow compatriots are real heroes. Thank you for your service to the nation. Too bad NASA’s Manned Exploration programs died before you, you lived to see it crumble, sorry.
SALUTE
Gordy was considered the best pilot by his peers,the other astronauts assigned to the MOL program,the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory. This was in the mid 60’s. MOL was cancelled in 1969 and He and a few others went on to fly shuttle. I flew with him in a T-39 from LA AirForce Base to Patrick AFB one time. I was the MOL meteorologist.
Met him once, helluva good test pilot, and did some extremely risky stuff. Remember reading he participated in a program where an F-15 had its control surfaces fixed, and it had to be landed using engine thrust/modulation alone.
Thank you sir...
Mr. Fullerton flew my Dad on the KC-135, many times during his stint as Test Director of the Zero-G Office at Ellington AFB/Field/Airport...
I had the privaledge of flying twice with Gordon as the Left Seat and he flew wonderful parabolas!!! Very precise, long periods of Low-G and Zero-G for the experiments I helped to support in the back...
It was also fun because my Dad and I both shared some time with some really neat people, and Gordon was one of those unassuming types that could do such a fantastic job, and then we’d go to Pe-Te’s across the street for some real Cajun BBQ...
Those were great days!!! And they (and Mr. Fullerton) will be sorely missed...