Owen K. Garriott

Owen Garriott was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, born on 22 November 1930 and died on 15 April 2019. He spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 on the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on the Space Shuttle in 1983, STS-9. After serving in the United States Navy he was an engineering professor at Stanford University and trained as a pilot in the Air Force programme before joining NASA. Wikidata records 69 days and 18 hours in space. His son Richard Garriott later flew to the International Space Station as a private astronaut.

Born: 22 November 1930
Died: 15 April 2019
Country: United States
Flights: 3: Skylab (1973), Skylab 3 (1973), STS-9 (1983)
Time in space: 69 days 18 hours

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

Skylab
- Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
Skylab was a Saturn V third stage turned into a house. Sixty-three seconds after liftoff the thin shield that was meant to protect it from meteoroids and sunlight tore away, taking one of its two solar arrays with it.
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