Editing C. Gordon Fullerton (section)

===NASA career===
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 | caption1 = Fullerton (right) alongside [[Fred Haise]], one of the [[Approach and Landing Tests|ALT]] crews
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Fullerton was part of [[NASA Astronaut Group 7]] in September 1969 after the cancellation of the MOL program. After assignment to the NASA Johnson Space Center as an astronaut, Fullerton served on the support crews for the [[Apollo 14]], [[Apollo 15|15]], [[Apollo 16|16]], and [[Apollo 17|17]] lunar missions.<ref name="cs" />

In 1977, Fullerton was assigned to one of the two-man flight crews which piloted the Space Shuttle prototype ''[[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' during the [[Approach and Landing Tests]] Program at Dryden that same year.<ref name="nasabio" />

Fullerton was the pilot on the eight-day [[STS-3]] [[Space Shuttle]] orbital flight test mission March 22–30, 1982. Launched from the [[Kennedy Space Center]], [[Florida]], the mission exposed the orbiter ''[[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]]'' to extremes in thermal stress and tested the {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=on}} [[Canadarm]] used to grapple and maneuver payloads to orbit.<ref name="cs" /> STS-3 landed at [[Northrup Strip]], [[White Sands, New Mexico]], because [[Rogers Dry Lake]] at Edwards AFB was wet due to heavy seasonal rains.<ref name="cs" />

Fullerton was commander of the [[STS-51-F]] "Spacelab 2" mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 29, 1985. This mission, with the orbiter ''[[Space Shuttle Challenger|Challenger]]'', was the first pallet-only [[Spacelab]] mission and the first to operate the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System (IPS). It carried 13 major experiments in the fields of astronomy, solar physics, ionospheric science, life science, and a super fluid helium experiment. The mission ended August 6, 1985, with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base.<ref name="nasabio" />