Owen K. Garriott
Owen Kay Garriott, Ph.D. (born November 22, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a space shuttle mission in 1983.
He is the father of Robert Garriott and fellow spacefarer Richard Garriott, with whom he helped found Origin Systems.
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