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Topic: Robert L. Gibson Planetarium (Long Island, NY)
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-14-2016 11:40 AM
   
If you're at the Michael J. Grant campus of Suffolk County Community College (Brentwood, Long Island), the planetarium there has been named for Hoot Gibson.Hoot received his associate's degree from SCCC in 1966 (his hometown is Huntington, also on Long Island.) There's a plaque at the Sagtikos Arts and Sciences Building denoting that, a photo of him, and a March 1989 resolution from the SCCC trustees calling for the naming. (I remember advertisements in Newsday, the Long Island paper, celebrating Hoot as an alum after the STS-27R flight. I don't know who told them — certainly wasn't me!) |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-28-2017 12:13 AM
Had some business to attend to on Long Island and was able to see the planetarium (outside).In addition to the plaque and resolution, there's another typed notation that "this Suffolk County Community College Flag" — although the flag is of the county itself and not the college! — "along with a college banner, were taken... into space in 1988 — his (Gibson's) third mission as a NASA astronaut. Both items were personally returned to the College on March 8, 1989." As well, there's a photo of a shuttle launch inscribed, "Reach for the Stars! Robert 'Hoot' Gibson."  
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