Guy Gardner (astronaut)

Guy Spence Gardner (born January 6, 1948) is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut.The mission carried a Department of Defense payload and is noteworthy due to the severe damage Atlantis sustained to its critical heat-resistant tiles during ascent.[3] Gardner left NASA in June 1991 to command the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.In August 1992, Gardner retired from the Air Force and returned to NASA to direct the joint U.S. and Russian Shuttle-Mir Program.[3] In 1995, Gardner joined the Federal Aviation Administration as Director of the William J. Hughes Technical Center, at the Atlantic City Int'l Airport, in New Jersey.
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