Edwin Jacob Garn
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: Oct. 12, 1932
Age: 90
Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American astronaut and politician, a member of the Republican Party, who 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 12–19, 1985).
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-D
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 12, 1985, 1:59 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:
STS-51-D was the sixteenth flight of the shuttle and fourth for the Space Shuttle Discovery. Its mission was to deploy a number of 10 satellites. The landing suffered extensive brake damaged and a ruptured tire. All subsequent landings had to be done at the Edwards Air Force Base until the development and implementation of nose steering.
Low Earth Orbit
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-24
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-24 carried two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in K…
Firefly Alpha
FLTA003 (VICTUS NOX)
Space Launch Complex 2W - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAThird flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher, carrying a payload for the US Department of Defense.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 7-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Atlas V 551
NROL-107 (Silent Barker)
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAClassified space situational awareness (SSA) payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Long March 6A
Yaogan 40
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing" purposes.
