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Owen Garriott: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Owen Kay Garriott
Born November 22, 1930 • Enid • Oklahoma
Died April 15, 2019 (aged 88) • Huntsville • Alabama
Notable Family Members son Richard Garriott

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Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, reconstituting a prepackaged container of food at the crew quarters' ward-room table of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the space station, 1973.
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Joseph Kerwin on Skylab 2
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STS-78; Thirsk, Robert
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Portrait of NASA astronaut Christina Koch wearing an orange flight suit with mission patches and an American flag.
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Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa
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Scott Kelly
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Morgan, Barbara
Barbara Morgan
American teacher and astronaut
Robert Crippen
Robert Crippen
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Nicollier, Claude
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Swiss test pilot and astronaut
Fuglesang, Christer
Christer Fuglesang
Swedish physicist and astronaut
Kadenyuk, Leonid
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Ukrainian cosmonaut
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Mexican scientist and engineer
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American astronaut and United States senator
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Peggy Whitson
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Sally Ride
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Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams
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Susan Helms, 2001.
Susan Helms
American astronaut and Air Force officer
Kalpana Chawla
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