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Dr Owen Garriott is a retired physicist, professor, and NASA astronaut. His first space flight was aboard Skylab 3 in 1973, which set a new world record for duration of approximately 60 days. Owen Garroitt’s second flight was aboard Spacelab-1 (STS-9) on a space shuttle mission in 1983. For this mission, he was trained to perform a series of neuro-physiological experiments by a team of scientists lead by Dr Kass.