Owen Garriott served on the second Skylab crew in 1973, spending close to 60 days in space, a record at the time.
While he never flew in space again, Garriott traveled to Kazakhstan in 2008 for his son's launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. They became the first U.S. father-and-son space travelers. The first second-generation astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut, launched just months before Richard Garriott and accompanied him back to Earth.
"While he was normally very ‘Spock like’ ... our adult bonding around the experience of space was a rare treasure we shared," Richard Garriott said in a tweet. "In 50 years, from my father's Apollo era to our new commercial era, much has been accomplished," he tweeted."Yet, none without the risks undertaken by those early pioneers!"
Owen Garriott was born in Enid, Okla., and served with the Navy. He was selected as an astronaut in 1965. As an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, he was one of the first six scientist-astronauts picked by NASA. Garriott later held other positions at NASA, including director of science and applications at Johnson Space Center in Houston. He left NASA in 1986.
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