Robert L. Gibson

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot who currently races regularly at the annual Reno Air Races.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Cooperstown

Education

Suffolk County Community College; California Polytechnic State University

Awards

National Aviation Hall of Fame; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Air Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; list of Louis Blériot medal winners; and 1 more

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-71Commander · Success · with Anatoly Solovyev, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen S. Baker, Gregory Harbaugh, Nikolai BudarinJune 27, 1995
• Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-47Commander · Success · with Curtis Brown, Jan Davis, Jerome Apt, Mae Jemison, Mamoru Mohri, Mark C. LeeSeptember 12, 1992
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-27Commander · Success · with Guy Gardner, Jerry L. Ross, Mike Mullane, William ShepherdDecember 2, 1988
• Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-61-CCommander · Success · with Bill Nelson, Charles Bolden, Franklin Chang Díaz, George Nelson, Robert J. Cenker, Steven HawleyJanuary 12, 1986
• Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-BPilot · Success · with Bruce McCandless II, Robert L. Stewart, Ronald McNair, Vance D. BrandFebruary 3, 1984