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Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on November 9, 1984
( 1st politician group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: April 12, 1985
Landing: April 19, 1985
Time in space: 6d 23h 55min
retired on April 19, 1985
Space flights

Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932 in Richfield , Utah ) is a former American politician ( Republican Party ). He was a member of the US Senate for Utah from 1974 to 1993 and the first politician to fly into space on a space shuttle .

Life

Garn received a BA in Business and Finance from the University of Utah in 1955 . He was a pilot in the United States Navy and in the Utah Air National Guard . In April 1979 he retired with the rank of brigadier general. Garn was Mayor of Salt Lake City from 1972 to 1975 . In 1974 he was elected to the Senate for the first time as the successor to the no longer running Wallace F. Bennett . He was in the office of Senator from December 21, 1974 to January 3, 1993. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Garn was co-author of the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, a law deregulating US savings banks that led to the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s . After retiring from the Senate, he was vice chairman of Huntsman Chemical Corp. in Salt Lake City.

Jake Garn is married for the second time and has four children from his first marriage and two children and a stepson from his second marriage.

Astronaut activity

Jake Garn (left) and Karol Bobko

STS-51-E

The Challenger flight STS-51-E was canceled due to problems with the IUS upper level. A TDRS satellite should have been deployed. In addition to Garn, the crew were Karol Bobko , Donald Williams , Rhea Seddon , David Griggs , Jeffrey Hoffman and the French payload specialist Patrick Baudry .

STS-51-D

On April 12, 1985, Garn started as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Discovery for the STS-51-D mission . The payload was the two satellites TELESAT-9 and LEASAT-3 . In the latter, however, the automatic commissioning of the antenna and the engine did not work. Despite an exit from space by astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and David Griggs, this defect could not be repaired. During the flight, Garn suffered considerably from what is known as space sickness .

Trivia

Upon his return, he co-authored a book called Night Launch . It was published in 1989 and is about the hijacking of a space shuttle by terrorists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jake Garn and Stephen Paul Cohen: Night Launch . William Morrow & Co, New York 1989, ISBN 978-0-688-06717-5 .

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Commons : Jake Garn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Yarn, Jake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garn, Edwin Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Richfield , Utah