Edwin J. "Jake" Garn and Charles Walker (Mission 51D Payload Specialists)
Edwin J. "Jake" Garn was the first Congressman in space. I met and interviewed him for Spaceflight magazine.
As of May 1985 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.
The senior Utah Senator 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. Senator Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of the Republican Conference.
Garn flew as a payload specialist on STS-51-D Discovery (April 12-19, 1985). STS-51-D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It's 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. Sent 2 March 2017, received back 2 April 2017.
Added Walker at the 30th Planetary Congress in October 2017.
Confirmed by NASA in 1983 as the first industrial payload specialist, Walker accompanied the McDonnell Douglas CFES equipment as a crew member on Space Shuttle Missions 41D/Discovery, 51D, and 61B/Atlantis, accumulating 20 days of experience in space and traveling 8.2 million miles.
Edwin J. "Jake" Garn and Charles Walker (Mission 51D Payload Specialists)
Edwin J. "Jake" Garn was the first Congressman in space. I met and interviewed him for Spaceflight magazine.
As of May 1985 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.
The senior Utah Senator 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. Senator Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of the Republican Conference.
Garn flew as a payload specialist on STS-51-D Discovery (April 12-19, 1985). STS-51-D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It's 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. Sent 2 March 2017, received back 2 April 2017.
Added Walker at the 30th Planetary Congress in October 2017.
Confirmed by NASA in 1983 as the first industrial payload specialist, Walker accompanied the McDonnell Douglas CFES equipment as a crew member on Space Shuttle Missions 41D/Discovery, 51D, and 61B/Atlantis, accumulating 20 days of experience in space and traveling 8.2 million miles.