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From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006

posted 08-06-2011 04:09 PM               

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Do any fellow collectSPACE members know who the support pilots/astronauts were that flew the Guflstream aircraft into Kennedy Space Center from Johnson Space Center with space shuttle flight crews aboard for launches?

I do know that astronaut Tom Henricks flew the Gulfstream for the STS 51-L crew in January 1986.

Sometimes the flight crews would fly T-38 themselves into KSC and sometimes they would fly together in a Gulfstream aircraft. I will have to check my notes on which flights they flew on the Gulfstream but any information would be very helpful.