[QCWA Hotlist] 2019-006 - Dr. Owen K Garriott, W5LFL (SK)

[ve6afo at telus.net]

April 16, 2019

 From QCWA Headquarters

http://www.qcwa.org/

QCWA Bulletin 2019-006 -  Dr. Owen  K Garriott, W5LFL (SK)

QCWA member # 17314, Dr. Owen K. Garriott, W5LFL, Skylab and space 
shuttle  astronaut, died Monday April 15, 2019 at age 88. Garriott 
was born in Ednid, OK and passed away at his home in Huntsville, AL. 
He was first licensed in 1946 as W5LFL.

Garriott was born Nov. 22, 1930 and graduated from Enid High School 
in 1948. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical 
engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1953.

Serving as an electronics officer in the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1956, 
he then received a master of science degree in 1957 from Stanford 
University and a doctorate in 1960. He taught electronics and physics 
at Stanford and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in June 1965.

Receiving jet pilot qualification, Garriott completed the U.S. Air 
Force Pilot Training Program in 1966 and was awarded an honorary 
doctorate of science degree from Phillips University in 1973.

Garriott's initial space flight on Skylab 3 was from July 28 to Sept. 
25, 1973. On this mission he and his two crew mates conducted major 
experiments in science and medicine for a total of 1,427 hours in 
space. In three separate space walks outside the Skylab, Garriott 
spent 13 hours and 43 minutes.

On November 28, 1983, Garriott made his second space flight aboard 
the Space Shuttle STS-9, which included the first flight of the 
Spacelab 1 international science station. That mission carried the 
first international shuttle crew and payload specialists. On this 
flight, he also conducted the first manned amateur radio operations 
in space. In 1986, Garriott resigned from NASA to go into private business.

In 1989 Garriott received the coveted QCWA John Di Blasi Award.

Garriott's son Richard, W5KWQ went into space in 2008. To date they 
are the only father and son team who have gone into space.

73,

Ken Oelke, VE6AFO
President, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc.


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