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California University Alumnus May Help Investigate Space Shuttle Disaster.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Ryan Huff, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 7--One of Cal Poly's most accomplished alumni may serve on a team investigating the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
Robert "Hoot" Gibson, a 1969 aerospace engineering graduate and a former chief astronaut who traveled into space on five missions, said it will be difficult to pinpoint the accident's cause because many of Columbia's parts are incinerated and scattered across several states.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., approached Gibson at Tuesday's memorial service for the seven dead astronauts at Johnson Space Center in Houston and asked for his help in a potential Senate inquiry of the accident.
"Of course I would serve," Gibson told The...
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