2 Quotes & Sayings By Astronaut Ron Garan

Astronaut Ron Garan is a veteran of two space shuttle missions, STS-109 and STS-121. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Garan was raised in Madison, Wisconsin where he earned his BA in Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1991. He then moved to Los Angeles, California where he completed his MS in Astronomy at UCLA in 1995. After his two space flights, Garan served as the NASA Astronaut Office's Chief of the Astronaut Office/Flight Operations Branch where he was responsible for training all new astronauts and monitoring their performance throughout their career at NASA Read more

He has worked with the U.S. Department of Defense on Joint Service Air Force-Army Aerospace programs for over 10 years in addition to being a NASA contractor to development centers in Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom.