The towline a sailor threw saved ET‑70 - and bought him a house in time
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The towline a sailor threw saved ET‑70 - and bought him a house in time
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The towline a sailor threw saved ET‑70 - and bought him a house in time
In this episode, we follow the chain of events linking a November hurricane, a maritime salvage case, and NASA’s first Shuttle‑Mir docking mission. The episode traces the decisions, engineering limits, and human moves that had to hold together for ET‑70 and Atlantis to make a rendezvous in orbit.
Person: Robert Gibson
Event: STS‑71 (Shuttle‑Mir docking mission)
Object: ET‑70 external tank
Date: November 1994 (hurricane), mid‑1995 (launch)
Location: Atlantic Ocean (salvage), Mir/Low Earth Orbit
- A tanker crew on the Cherry Valley found and towed the orange external tank adrift after Hurricane Gordon swept it from a barge.
- NASA filed a salvage claim that led to a courtroom fight; a judge initially awarded $6.4 million, later reduced on appeal to $4.125 million.
- One sailor split his share with crewmates and used his portion to buy a house he called “the house that NASA bought.”
- Engineers prepared a manual R‑Bar approach requiring the shuttle to close at 33 millimeters per second when Robert Gibson took control at 800 meters.
- Atlantis and Mir had to rendezvous with tolerances measured in millimeters while both tumbled together at orbital velocity.
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