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Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a member of the United States Senate representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a ...
Jake Garn. Life and Legacy. Jake Garn became a pilot as a teen, instructed by his father Edwin Jacob Garn, to become Utah’s first licensed pilot in 1917. During the Cold War as a pilot of multi-engine Naval amphibious surveillance planes flying off the coast of China in the early 1950s. Watch Now.
After years of working with NASA, officials announced that Senator Jake Garn would join their November 1984, their 1985 Space Shuttle Discovery flight as a payload specialist. During the flight, he logged 108 orbits and 2.8 million miles making him the first public official to go to space.
El simulador de misión y centro de entrenamiento Jake Garn, el principal centro de entrenamiento de la NASA para astronautas en los programas del Transbordador y la Estación Espacial, lleva su nombre. A su regreso, coescribió la novela de 1989 Night Launch.
9 de nov. de 2019 · Jake Garn, a retired U.S. senator and Navy pilot, experienced this transformation firsthand, after orbiting the Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1985. "It's almost impossible to explain to people what it's like to look back (toward Earth) and see the entire planet," said Garn, 82.
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Payload Specialist Astronaut Bio: Jake Garn. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Houston, Texas 77058. Biographical Data. JAKE GARN (SENATOR) PAYLOAD SPECIALIST. PERSONAL DATA: Born in Richfield, Utah, on October 12, 1932. Married. Seven children and one grandchild.
3 de dic. de 2022 · By Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Posted - Dec. 3, 2022 at 8:15 p.m. Retired U.S. Sen. Jake Garn, who is also Utah’s first astronaut, and his daughter Ellen Garn look at an art installation honoring...
