In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard Skylab, the first space laboratory. Dr. Garriott, a scientist pilot ...

Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program's STS-9 ...

Owen K. Garriott, one of the original scientists selected to explore the cosmos firsthand and the first astronaut to operate an interstellar ham radio station, died Monday at his home in ...

"There's a lot of work to do," said Owen Garriott, who returned to space in 1983 and was glad to see his son achieve his dream. "I never thought he would have the chance, 30 years ago," said Garriott.

As if that wasn't enough for one lifetime, Garriott is also an astronaut: He took a self-funded space flight in 2008, following in the footsteps of his astronaut father Owen Garriott. Garriott ...

Back in 1973, Owen Garriott, astronaut and physicist, lived aboard Skylab, America’s first space station, for 59 days. The station’s core was a modified Saturn V third stage, the S-IVB ...

His father, Owen Garriott, was a NASA astronaut who flew on Skylab 3 and a Space Shuttle Columbia mission. He had an impish streak, convincing his wife to record a message to later use as a prank ...

Computer game developer Richard Garriott — who paid his way to the International Space Station in 2008 with the Russians — hates the space tourist label. “I am an astronaut,” he declared ...

Garriott: Oddly, yes. When I was very young, my father, both side neighbors, one over the back fence and about 20% of every home within two blocks was the home of an astronaut. The other 80% were ...

During his 10-day shuttle mission in 1983, astronaut Garriott spoke with about 250 hams all over the world, including King Hussein of Jordan and Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Garriott died in 2019.