Edwin Jacob Garn

Spaceflight participant
Nationality	American
Born	October 12, 1932 Richfield, Utah
Occupation1	Pilot, Politician
Rank	Colonel, Air National Guard
Space time	6 d 23 h 55 m
Selection	1984 NASA Group
Mission(s)	STS-51-D
Mission insignia
1 previous or current

Edwin Jacob Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D (April 12-April 19, 1985). Image File history File links Utah Senator Jake Garn. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Richfield is the name of several places in the United States of America: Richfield Township, Michigan Richfield, Minnesota Richfield, North Carolina Richfield, Ohio Richfield, Wisconsin Richfield, Utah Richfield was also a former brand name of automobile gasoline service stations in the western United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ... For other uses, see Aviator (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Colonel (IPA: or ) is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ... The Air National Guard (ANG) is part of the United States National Guard and a reserve component of the United States Air Force (USAF). ... 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1987 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 2000 2003 2004 1958 June 25 - Man In Space Soonest - USA The first group of American astronaut candidates were selected... STS 51-D was the sixteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the fourth flight of Discovery. ... Download high resolution version (1200x859, 133 KB)Nasa Shuttle mission 51-D patch File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ... Type Bicameralism Houses Senate House of Representatives United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D, since January 4, 2007 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D, since January 4, 2007 Members 535 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups (as of November 7, 2006 elections) Democratic Party Republican... Space Shuttle Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of three remaining spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), along with Atlantis and Endeavour. ... In NASA vernacular, a Payload Specialist (PS) is a Space Shuttle crewmember selected for a single specific mission. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nations public space program. ... STS 51-D was the sixteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the fourth flight of Discovery. ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Born in Richfield, Utah, Garn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and finance from the University of Utah in 1955. He also attended East High School, Clayton Middle School, and Uintah Elementary School. Richfield is highlighted in red Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, in the United States. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU) is a public university in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Experience

Senator Garn is a former insurance executive. He served in the United States Navy as a pilot. He also served in the Utah Air National Guard as a pilot and retired as a full Colonel in April 1979. He has flown more than 10,000 hours in military and private civilian aircraft. USN redirects here. ... For other uses, see Aviator (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ... The Air National Guard (ANG) is part of the United States National Guard and a reserve component of the United States Air Force (USAF). ... Colonel (IPA: or ) is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ... For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... In times of armed conflict a civilian is any person who is not a combatant. ...

Prior to his election to the Senate, Garn served on the Salt Lake City commission for four years and was elected Mayor in 1971. He was active in the Utah League of Cities and Towns and served as President in 1972. In 1974, he was First Vice President of the National League of Cities and served as Honorary President in 1975. Salt Lake City redirects here. ... This is a list of mayors of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Salt Lake City was incorporated on January 6, 1851. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ... The National League of Cities is a group of American mayors and councilmen. ...

Garn was first elected to the Senate in 1974, succeeding retiring Republican Wallace Bennett. Garn was reelected to a second term in November 1980, receiving 74 percent of the vote, the largest victory in a statewide race in Utah history. Senator Wallace Foster Bennett (1898–1993) was a United States Senator from Utah. ...

Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and served on three subcommittees: Housing and Urban Affairs, Financial Institutions, and International Finance and Monetary Policy. He also was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and served as Chairman of the HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee. He served on four other Appropriations subcommittees: Energy and Water Resources, Defense, Military Construction, and Interior. Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of the Republican Conference.

Savings and loan

As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Garn was co-author of the Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, the law that deregulated the savings and loan industry and led to the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s. The Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 was a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1982 that deregulated the Savings and Loan industry. ... The Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s was a wave of savings and loan association failures in the United States in which over 1,000 savings and loan institutions failed. ...

Space flight experience

STS-51-D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Its primary objective was to deploy two communications satellites, and to perform electrophoresis and echocardiograph operations in space in addition to a number of other experiments. At the conclusion of the mission, Garn had traveled over 2.5 million miles in 108 Earth orbits, logging over 167 hours in space as the world's first space tourist. The spacesickness he experienced during the journey was so severe that NASA named the "Garn scale" of spacesickness after him, and he was quickly dubbed "Barfin' Jake" by his Senate colleagues. STS 51-D was the sixteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the fourth flight of Discovery. ... Merritt Island and Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 162 miles (260 km)  - Length 497 miles (800 km)  - % water 17. ... Electrophoresis is the movement of an electrically charged substance under the influence of an electric field. ... The curvature of the Earth seen from orbit would be one of the main attractions for tourists paying to go into space Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. ... Space adaptation syndrome, or space sickness, is what astronauts go through during adaptation to zero gravity. ...

Upon his return, he co-authored a book of fiction entitled, Night Launch. The book centers around terrorists taking control of the Space Shuttle Discovery during the first NASA-USSR space shuttle flight. It was first published in 1989, with a paperback edition coming out in 1990. Night Launch is a 1989 novel by former Senator and astronaut Jake Garn about terrorists taking over a space shuttle. ... Terrorist redirects here. ...

Personal life

Garn married the late Hazel Rhae Thompson in 1957. Together, they had four children: Jacob, Susan, Ellen, and Jeffrey. Hazel was killed in a car accident in 1976. Garn was remarried in 1977 to Kathleen Brewerton, who had a son, Brook, from a previous marriage. Jake and Kathleen had two more children, Matthew and Jennifer. Garn has 13 children (including in-laws), and 17 grandchildren ranging from ages from 21-newborn.

External links

• NASA biography of Garn
• IMNO Interviews Jake Garn
• Spacefacts biography of Jake Garn

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