Owen K. Garriott Death
Owen passed away on April 15, 2019 at the age of 88 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
When did Owen K. Garriott die?
April 15, 2019How old was Owen K. Garriott when died?
88Where did Owen K. Garriott die? What was the location of death?
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Owen K. Garriott Birthday and Date of Death
Owen K. Garriott was born on November 22, 1930 and died on April 15, 2019. Owen was 88 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: November 22, 1930
Date of Death: April 15, 2019
Age at Death: 88
Owen K. Garriott - Biography
Owen Kay Garriott (born November 22, 1930) is an American electrical engineer and 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.
Garriott was co-author, with fellow astronaut Joseph Kerwin and writer David Hitt, of Homesteading Space, a history of the Skylab program, published in 2008. He was co-author of Introduction to Ionospheric Physics with Henry Rishbeth. Garriott was also a contributor to the book NASA's Scientist-Astronauts by David Shayler and Colin Burgess. Garriott wrote the foreword to the book.
Garriott married Helen Mary née Walker, his high school sweetheart, in 1952. They had four children: Randall O. (born 1955), Robert K. (born 1956), Richard A. (born 1961) a computer programmer and the creator of the Ultima computer game series, and Linda S. (born 1966). After he divorced his first wife he married Evelyn L. Garriott, who had three kids from a previous relationship.
His son Richard was launched as a space tourist on board Soyuz TMA-13 on October 12, 2008, the first American and the second person worldwide to follow a parent into space. Owen Garriott was in mission control at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the launch and was in attendance when his son returned 12 days later.
