Owen Kay Garriott was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who 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 in 1971
Garriott performs a spacewalk during the Skylab 3 mission.
Owen with Richard, prior to his son's spaceflight
Garriott using an amateur radio during STS-9 training in 1983
Skylab 3 was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab. The mission began on July 28, 1973, with the launch of NASA astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma in the Apollo command and service module on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. A total of 1,084.7 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by the Skylab 3 crew performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources, and other experiments.
Skylab as seen by the arriving Skylab 3 crew
L-R: Garriott, Lousma and BeanSkylab program← Skylab 2Skylab 4 →
Skylab 3 heads into orbit aboard a Saturn IB.
Astronaut Jack Lousma participates in an EVA.