I started looking at STS-28 thinking it might have some clues about my journey across Africa in 1986 and 1987 because I would have been 28 years old on 5/13/87. The date 5/13/87 is when I think I completed my escape back to the U.S. Navy after being shot down on 2/14/86.
The space shuttle flight STS-28 returned to Earth on 8/13/89. I count that the period 2/14/86 to 8/13/89 was 3 years, 5.9 months.
STS-28
Launch: August 8, 1989
Landing: August 13, 1989
The commander of STS-28 was also on STS-9. He was the same age when I was born as I was when Apollo 17 returned. I have found other connections to the Battle of Hue city in Vietnam and to the journey I think I had to make across Africa in 1986 and 1987. The reason for connecting to Apollo 17 may be to symbolize the end of a long journey.
From 5/16/1945 to 3/3/1959 is: 5039 days
From 3/3/1959 to 12/19/1972 is: 5040 days
Brewster Hopkinson Shaw, Jr. (b. May 16, 1945 in Cass City, Michigan) is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut.
Mission(s) STS-9, STS-61-B, STS-28
This STS-28 astronaut reflects a possible connection to my theory of my journey across Africa and an incident in 1983. I have found clues that I survived also the Marine barracks that was bombed in Lebanon in 1983. I wrote earlier that the 10/23/83 date of that bombing was 33 weeks, 3 days, after my 24th birthday.
From 3/3/1946 to 5/13/1987 is: 15046 days
From 3/3/1959 to 10/23/1983 is: 9000 days
9000 / 15046 = 0.59
James Craig Adamson (Born March 3, 1946) is a former NASA astronaut and retired colonel of the United States Army.
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In February 1988 Adamson was assigned to the flight crew of STS-28, the first flight of Columbia following the reconstruction period. Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 8, 1989. The mission carried a classified Department of Defense payload and a number of secondary payloads. After 80 earth orbits in 121 hours, this five day mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August 13, 1989.
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a major incident during the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut housing U.S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, killing hundreds of soldiers, the majority being U.S. Marines. The October 23, 1983, blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the Israeli invasion in 1982.
This astronaut on STS-28 strongly reinforces my theory that I was shot down over Africa on 2/14/86 because I had been part of that Osirak strike in Iraq in 1981.
His birthday was 11/18/51, the STS-28 flight returned 8/13/89, and the Osirak strike was on 6/7/81. I think it was 5/13/87 was I returned from that 15 month journey across Africa and I was 28 years old when I returned.
From 11/18/1951 to 8/13/1989 is: 13783 days
From 3/3/1959 to 6/7/1981 is: 8132 days
Dividing 8132 by 13783 equals 0.59
NAME: Mark N. Brown (Colonel, USAF)
NASA Astronaut (former)
PERSONAL DATA: Born November 18, 1951, in Valparaiso, Indiana.
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On his first space flight, Brown served as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-28. The Orbiter Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 8, 1989. The mission carried Department of Defense payloads and a number of secondary payloads. After 80 orbits of the Earth, this five-day mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California on August 13, 1989.
