Jake Garn
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Jake Garn
b. Oct 12, 1932
LIFE FORM
Gender
Rank
Utah Air National Guard Ret. Colonel
MISSIONS
1
TIME IN SPACE
06D:23H:55M
SPACEWALKS
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SPACEWALK TIME
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Jake Garn
171
Jake Garn
b. Oct 12, 1932
LIFE FORM
Gender
Rank
Utah Air National Guard Ret. Colonel
MISSIONS
1
TIME IN SPACE
06D:23H:55M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
Bio

Senator Jake Garn, born on October 12, 1932, in Richfield, Utah, is a former insurance executive, U.S. Navy and Utah Air National Guard pilot, and retired Colonel with over 10,000 flight hours. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business and finance from the University of Utah and served as Mayor of Salt Lake City before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974, where he later won re-election in 1980 with a record-setting 74% of the vote. In the Senate, he chaired the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and held key roles on the Appropriations Committee. Garn made history as the first member of Congress to fly in space, serving as a payload specialist on NASA’s STS-51D mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985, during which he orbited Earth 108 times and logged over 167 hours in space. He is married with seven children and one grandchild. Courtesy of NASA.

WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
dwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Utah. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress of either chamber to fly in space when he flew aboard the now-former Space Shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist during NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) mission STS-51-D (April 12–19, 1985). Prior to his time in Congress, he served as the mayor of Salt Lake City in the early 1970s.