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Personal: Male, Married, Seven children. Born in Richfield, Utah, USA.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: 9 November 1984. Left space service: 19 April 1985. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 7.00 days.

NAME: Jake Garn

BIRHPLACE AND DATE: Jake Garn was born in Richfield, Utah, on 12 October 1932.

EDUCATION: Garn graduated from the University of Utah in 1955 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Finance.

MARITAL STATUS: In 1957 he married the late Hazel Thompson, and they had four children--Jake, Jr.; Susan; Ellen; and Jeffrey--before her death. In 1977 he married Kathleen Brewerton, who had a son, Brook, from a previous marriage. The couple also had a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Jennifer.

EXPERIENCE: Garn served in the U.S. Navy on active duty from June 1956 to January 1960, and he was designated a naval aviator in 1957. He was in the Naval Reserve from 1960 to 1962, and in the Utah Air National Guard from 1963 to 1979. He retired and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 1985.

Garn entered politics and was elected to the Salt Lake City Commission in 1967. He was elected mayor of Salt Lake City in 1971 and to the U.S. Senate in 1974 as a Republican. He served as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and the Senate Rules Committee. He was a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and served as Secretary of the Republican Conference.

Garn fought against the Equal Rights Amendment and the SALT II Treaty. He sponsored the 1982 Garn St. Germain Act, which significantly restructured the nation's banking laws. In 1985, he succeeded in passing legislation to punish companies which allow sensitive technology to end up in the hands of U.S. adversaries.

In April 1985 Garn became the first public official to travel in space when he served as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Discovery (flight 51-D). During the seven day flight, the senator performed various medical tests. The flight landed at Cape Canaveral on 19 April 1985.

Garn was reelected to the Senate in 1980, and again to a third term in 1986. Garn retired from the Senate in 1992 to pursue private business and consulting activities.

• 12 April 1985 Flight: STS-51-D. Flight Up: STS-51-D. Flight Back: STS-51-D. Flight Time: 7.00 days.

1985 March - STS-51-E (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: STS-51-E. Planned TDRS/IUS deployment shuttle mission. Cancelled due to IUS failure.