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Owen Garriott

1930 - 2019

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Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) 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. After serving in the United States Navy, Garriott was an engineering professor at Stanford University before attending the United States Air Force Pilot Training Program and later joining NASA. After his NASA career, he worked for various aerospace companies, consulted on NASA-related committees, taught as an adjunct professor, and conducted research on microbes found in extreme environments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Owen Garriott is the 30th most popular astronaut (up from 161st in 2019), the 1,753rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,032nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Owen Garriott ranks 30 out of 556. Before him are Sigmund Jähn, Harrison Schmitt, Jack Lousma, David M. Brown, Svetlana Savitskaya, and Gerald Carr. After him are William C. McCool, Edgar Mitchell, Andriyan Nikolayev, Jim Lovell, David Scott, and Mark Kelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Owen Garriott ranks 92. Before him are Ernst Albrecht, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Frank Drake, Gérard Genette, Robert Aumann, and Pierre Bergé. After him are José Sarney, Edgar Mitchell, Michal Kováč, Mario Adorf, Martin Karplus, and Choe Yong-rim. Among people deceased in 2019, Owen Garriott ranks 73. Before him are Paul Greengard, Danny Aiello, Rosamunde Pilcher, Isabel Sarli, Yury Luzhkov, and Alicia Alonso. After him are Claudine Auger, César Pelli, Michael Atiyah, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Nikolai Kardashev, and Christopher C. Kraft Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Owen Garriott ranks 1,753 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Iris Apfel (1921), Snoop Dogg (1971), Linda Evans (1942), Dionne Warwick (1940), and Tom Lister Jr. (1958). After him are Kendall Jenner (1995), Lee Grant (1927), Anthony Mann (1906), George C. Williams (1926), Burt Bacharach (1928), and Joseph L. Goldstein (1940).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Owen Garriott ranks 21. Before him are William R. Pogue (1930), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Harrison Schmitt (1935), Jack Lousma (1936), David M. Brown (1956), and Gerald Carr (1932). After him are William C. McCool (1961), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Jim Lovell (1928), David Scott (1932), Mark Kelly (1964), and Margaret Rhea Seddon (1947).

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