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REDIRECT Jake Garn Category:Astronaut-Cosmonaut

... ; title = Jake Garn titlestyle = image = Image:Astronaut_garn.jpg 200px imagestyle = caption = Jake Garn captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Jake Garn header3 = label3 ... on four other Appropriations subcommittees: Energy and Water Resources, Defense, Military Construction, and Interior. Senator Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of ...

... the TDRS, so they were going to move us to another flight. I had Jake Garn Senator E. Jake Garn and Patrick Baudry on the flight when it was canceled. Well, they were going ... :''' That’s great. So did you have Senator Garn on that mission? '''Bobko:''' Yes. '''Bergen:''' So he did fly that mission. '''Bobko:''' Jake was on that flight, and he was also going ... woman; Jeff Jeffery A. Hoffman; S. David Griggs; and then the two payload specialists were Jake Garn and Charlie Charles D. Walker. '''Bergen:''' So you all remained fairly close after that since ...

... with them for a little while, and then the decision was made—we had flown Jake Garn, Senator Jake Garn, as the first member of Congress to fly in space. And so C. W ... jokes because he was a lawyer who was designated to fly on the Shuttle. Jake Garn was great. Jake Garn was the ideal candidate to do it, because he was a veteran Navy combat pilot who had more flight time than anybody in the Astronaut Office. Jake had 17,000 ...

... , the NY Times and Washington Post reported. Discovery carried a crew of seven, including Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for the NASA budget. The launch followed ... miles, one of the higher courses achieved by the spacecraft. Discovery 's crew besides Sen. Garn were Air Force Col. Karol Bobko, making his second Space Shuttle flight, commander; Navy Comdr ... MSFC ), would fly on STS 51-D in a locker used by payload specialist Sen. Jake Garn, who would take sole responsibility for the operation of the PPE. Phase partitioning was a ...

... : Charles D. Walker (as industrial payload specialist representing McDonnell Douglas Corp.) Payload Specialist 2: Senator Jake Garn (Utah) '''ISS/Mir Crew Transport''' Mission STS 51-D was the fourth Discovery shuttle flight ... Karol Bobko, Donald Williams, Rhea Seddon, David Griggs, Jeffrey Hoffman, Charles Walker and US Senator Jake Garn. During this mission, the TELESAT-l (ANIK C-1) communications satellite was deployed, attached to ...

... , and that specific flight because, in fact, the flight number was changed because Jake Garn came to fly, Senator Jake Garn, and took the seat of Patrick Baudry on 51-D . So the flight ...

Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah) today joined five astronauts and a French pilot for the final two-hour ... to avoid any surprises at liftoff, ending with a simulated liftoff at 4 p.m. Garn, who would fly on Challenger as a congressional observer, was chairman of a subcommittee that ...

... monitoring. (NASA Release 85-39) In response to numerous comments regarding the appropriateness of Sen. Jake Garn's (R-Utah) flight on the Space Shuttle , Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) wrote in a letter to the Washington Times that Garn had as good a background in aviation as any member of Congress and his was ...

... slowing from two to one revolution per minute. The first congressional observer in space, Sen. Jake Gam (R-Utah), had difficulty negotiating the steps down to the runway and required assistance ... NY Times editorial that said, "Having pressured NASA to give him his space trip, Mr. Garn is now indebted to the agency. That's a pity for those whom he represents ... supervising NASA's budget and its request to build an $8 billion space station." However, Garn commented that "I'm carrying my own weight. I knew I had to prove myself ...

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