  owen kay garriott, ph.d. (born november 22, 1930) is an 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. he is the father of robert garriott and fellow spacefarer richard garriott, with whom he helped found origin systems. he is currently a co-founder and president of immunotherapeutics, inc. in huntsville, alabama. ==biography== ===education and military career=== garriott was born in enid, oklahoma. he graduated from enid high school in 1948; received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the university of oklahoma in 1953, where he was a member of phi kappa psi fraternity, and a master of science and ph.d. from stanford university in electrical engineering in 1957 and 1960, respectively. garriott was presented an honorary doctorate of science from phillips university in 1973. he completed a one-year u.s. air force pilot training program in 1966, receiving qualification as pilot in jet aircraft. garriott's interests include skiing, sailing, scuba diving and amateur radio. garriott served as electronics officer in the united states navy from 1953 to 1956. from 1961 through 1965 he was an assistant professor, then associate professor in the department of electrical engineering at stanford university. he performed research and led graduate studies in ionospheric physics after obtaining his doctorate, and authored or co-authored more than 45 scientific papers, chapters and one book, principally in areas of the physical sciences. he has logged over 5,000 hours flying time, including over 2,900 hours in jet aircraft and the remainder in spacecraft, light aircraft and helicopters. ===nasa career===  in 1965, garriott was one of the [[astronaut group 4|s
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