Owen Garriott

Owen Garriott at the Apollo Telescope Mount, Skylab 3, August 6, 1973 The first American space station needed fixing almost from launch, and spacewalks kept it alive. On this outing Garriott and Jack Lousma put up a twin-pole sunshade to cool the overheating workshop. Here Garriott works among the telescope mount's struts, a scientist-astronaut doing hands-on station maintenance years before the shuttle made it routine.