Special report: A return visit with EE-astronaut Owen Garriott: Seven years of preparation and a blast off like riding the rumble seat of a model a ¿ but the two-month trip was worth it!

The prospect of sitting atop a Saturn missile and being propelled to orbital heights is probably not every engineer´s idea of fun, but EE-scientist-astronaut Own Garriott experienced just that ¿ and then circled the earth in Skylab 3 on an orbital mission that lasted nearly two months and brought him both pleasure and satisfaction.