Owen Garriott
Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut. He spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983.
Garriott was born in Enid, Oklahoma. He was the father of Robert Garriott and fellow astronaut Richard Garriott,[1] with whom he helped found the video-game developer Origin Systems. Garriott died on April 15, 2019 in Huntsville, Alabama at the age of 88.[2]
Owen Garriott Media
This is the emblem for the second manned Skylab mission. It will be a mission of up to 56 days.
This is the official insignia for STS-9, the major *payload of which is Spacelab 1, depicted in the cargo bay of the *Columbia. The nine stars and the path of the orbiter tell the flight's *numerical designation in the Space Transportation System's mission *sequence.
Owen with Richard, prior to his son's spaceflight
Garriott using an amateur radio during STS-9 training in 1983
References
- ↑ Wade, M. "Garriott". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 2012-04-11.
- ↑ ASE_Astronauts (15 April 2019). "We've just received word..." (Tweet).
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