We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things, not because they are
easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
Sept. 12, 1962
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Owen Kay Garriott
Astronaut
| Date of Birth: |
November 22, 1930 |
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| Place of Birth: |
Enid, Oklahoma |
| Joined NASA: |
June 28, 1965 |
| Left NASA: |
June 11, 1986 |
| Space Flights: |
2 |
| Time in Space: |
69 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes |
| Number of EVA's |
3 |
| Total EVA Time: |
13 hours, 43 minutes |
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MISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Apollo 11
Assignment: Capcom
Skylab 3
July 28 - September 25, 1973
Assignment: Science Pilot
Flight Duration: 59 days, 11 hours, 9 minutes
STS 9
November 28 - December 8, 1983
Assignment: Mission Specialist
Flight Duration: 10 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes
HIGHLIGHTS
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B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1953
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 1957
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 1960
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Served as an Electronics Officer in the US Navy from 1952 to 1956 stationed aboard several destroyers.
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Professor at Stanford from 1961 to 1965, teaching Electronics, Electromagnetic Theory & Ionospheric Physics.
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Skylab 3, July to September, 1973, Science Pilot aboard the second Skylab mission completing a two month stay including 3 spacewalks.
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Following his flight he served as Deputy Director and then Director of the Office of Science and Applications and then as the Assistant Director for Space and Life Sciences at JSC.
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STS 9, November 1983, Mission Specialist aboard the Spacelab 1 shuttle mission which featured the first international crew aboard a shuttle mission.
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From 1984 to 1986 worked as a Space Station Project Scientist.
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After leaving NASA, Garriott was the Vice-President of Space Programs for Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Co-founder and President of Immutherapeutics Inc. in Hunstville.
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