We’d actually been picked for that mission in the fall of ’83, which is typical, about a year ahead of time.
We were supposed to fly originally in 1984, I think, in the fall of ’84. STS 51-D pilot Don Williams summed up the bumpy road to lift-off in an interview for JSC’s Oral History Project: And within the Astronaut Corps, he forever will be remembered by that." Most guys will get maybe to a tenth Garn, if that high.
But anyway, Jake Garn, he has made a mark in the Astronaut Corps because he represents the maximum level of space sickness that anyone can ever attain, and so the mark of being totally sick and totally incompetent is one Garn. I don't know whether we should tell stories like that. Robert Stevenson described it for JSC’s Oral History Project: ”Jake Garn was sick, was pretty sick. 204), he involuntarily invented a new unofficial measurement unit, quantifying the degree of nausea experienced by astronauts.ĭr. And the Senator would get more than he had asked for… suffering “one of the more legendary cases of space sickness” (Mike Mullane, “Riding Rockets”, p. Well, Jake Garn was given a chance nobody supporting space flight could resist.
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The question might be, if that required taking away a seat on the Space Shuttle from professional astronauts – even if the Senator was a former Navy pilot and Brigadier General in the Utah Air Guard with 10,000 flight hours to his credit. A newspaper cartoon showed Jake Garn floating inside the Shuttle, saying: “That is one small step for me, but one giant leap towards NASA getting its budget approved.”Īs NASA’s Congressional overseer it was part of Garn’s duties to take a good look at how the space agency operated. Comments from fellow politicians and media representatives ranged from slight envy to speculations of bribe and junketeering. Probably never before during four years of shuttle operations had there been a crew experiencing so many changes to their mission than Karol Bobko and his team – and that included everything: launch dates, payloads, crew members and even orbiters, literally up to the final hours before lift-off.Īnd to add to all of these changes, delays and unfortunate accidents, there was the Honorable Gentleman from Utah, Republican Senator Jake Garn, adding controversy to this flight.
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