Shuttle Close Out Crew Honored At National Air and Space Museum
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| Description | In 1983, Travis Thompson joined the United Space Alliance as the Closeout Crew Lead and served in that role for almost 100 missions. His first assignment supported the crew of Challenger’s STS-8 mission, and later became the Closeout Crew Chief for the last ten years of Shuttle missions. His service included final checks of the astronauts’ launch entry suits before boarding, assisting crews into their seats, launch pad safety and evacuation trainings for the astronauts and launch pad crew members, and strapping in astronauts in for launch. An astronaut took Travis Thompson’s name badge into space and photographed it there as a courtesy to Mr. Thompson in appreciation for his long service on the Closeout Crew, from 1983 through 2011. Thompson donated his complete uniform to the National Air and Space Museum after the final Shuttle launch in 2011. In 2007, inside of the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Thompson helped STS-120 Mission Commander Pamela Melro |
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| Date | 2021-07-09 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |