Monday, October 12, 2020

Happy birthday, astronaut and senator Jake Garn!


Edwin "Jake" Garn, born October 12, 1932 in Richfield, Utah, went into space aboard Discovery (STS-51-D) as payload specialist in April 1985.  

Garn asked to fly on the shuttle since he was head of the Senate appropriations committee that dealt with NASA.  He was a US Senator for Utah from December 1974 to January 1993.


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