Oklahoma native, Owen K. Garriott graduated from Enid High School and the University of Oklahoma before entering the Navy during the latter part of the Korean War. After earning advanced degrees at Stanford and Cambridge universities, he returned to Stanford as a professor of electronics and electromagnetic theory, where he also authored numerous papers and a book. He entered the National Aeronautics and Space Program in 1965, and as a scientist-astronaut, he participated in the second named Skylab mission from July 28 to September 25, 1973. Skylab-3 covered 858 revolutions of the earth, and traveled more than 24 million miles. The crew installed six replacement rate gyros for altitude control and repaired nine major experimental solar observations from above the earth’s atmosphere. Dr. Garriott later served as Director of Science and Applications for the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, before returning to the Astronaut Office to continue training for future flight in Space Shuttle missions. As a thank you gift to the Enid community, Dr. Garriott donated $300,000 in 1993 towards the building of an exciting hands-on arts and sciences museum Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse.