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SALT LAKE CITY -- Former U.S. Sen. Jake Garn went to space 25 years ago. Now, Clark Planetarium is honoring him with a display on his April 1985 space flight.
Garn served as a payload specialist for seven days aboard the space shuttle Discovery and performed medical tests for NASA.
Even as a young Navy pilot, Garn says he wouldn't have believed it if someone had told him he would orbit the earth 109 times at 25 times the speed of sound.
"Just not possible, even with my wild imagination, to think that would take place; but it did," Garn said.
Garn's been a strong advocate for space science before and since his space flight.
