It just so happened to be the end of Solar System week and the Astronaut Jake Garn was there for the assembly! He was so nice and it was neat to see the movie he put together in space. I didn't get a good picture with my camera, I was given a camera to use for the newspaper and after taking those totally forgot to take some with mine too, so here are some for the sideline.
Senator Garn flew as a payload specialist on STS-51D Discovery (April 12-19, 1985). STS-51D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It's primary objective was to deploy two communications satellites, and to perform electrophoresis and echocardiograph operations in space in addition to a number of other experiments. At the conclusion of the mission, Senator Garn had traveled over 2.5 million miles in 108 Earth orbits, logging over 167 hours in space. Senator Garn is the first member of congress to fly in space.
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