Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He was selected as an Astronaut by NASA in 1978 and flew five missions, including the ground-breaking docking mission with the Russian MIR space station. He was also NASA’s Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1992 to 1994, one of only four individuals in history to have held the position at the time. That said, Hoot’s story extends well beyond space…as a professional pilot, a Reno Air Racer and aircraft experimenter, Hoot began pushing limits and setting aviation world-records nearly 40 years ago. He also worked alongside his good friend, the late, great Bruce Bohannon in setting some of these records in the famous Pushy Galore aircraft.

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