Ronald J. Garan

Ronald John Garan Jr. is a retired NASA astronaut. After graduating from State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1982, he joined the Air Force, becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1984. He became an F-16 pilot, and flew combat missions in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Before becoming an astronaut he was the Operations Officer of the 40th Flight Test Squadron (FTS). He first flew in space as a mission specialist on the May 2008 STS-124 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). He returned to ISS on April 4, 2011, for a six-month stay as a member of Expedition 27. Garan is a highly decorated former NASA astronaut who flew on the US Space Shuttle, Russian Soyuz, and International Space Station. In total he spent 178 days in space and more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of Earth, 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA in four spacewalks, and 18 days on the bottom of the ocean during the NEEMO-9 undersea mission.

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Ronald John Garan Jr.
fighter pilot, military officer, engineer, astronaut,

Soyuz TMA-21 ⓘ
2011 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
STS-124 ⓘ
human spaceflight
Expedition 27 ⓘ
mission to the International Space Station
Expedition 28 ⓘ
expedition to the International Space Station

United States,

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2011 Expedition 27

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Mike Fincke and Ron Garan

NASA Astronaut Group 18

NEEMO 9 crew tattoos

NEEMO 9 Garan splashdown

NEEMO 9 Hein and Garan

Ron Garan CMAS Experiment

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source

class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-21	Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Andrey Borisenko, Ronald J. Garan, Soyuz-TMA, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-124	Akihiko Hoshide, Garrett Reisman, Gregory Chamitoff, Karen L. Nyberg, Kenneth Ham, Mark Kelly, Michael E. Fossum, Ronald J. Garan, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2011	Expedition 27	Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Andrey Borisenko, Catherine Coleman, Dmitri Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli, Ronald J. Garan, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2011	Expedition 28	Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Andrey Borisenko, Michael E. Fossum, Ronald J. Garan, Satoshi Furukawa, Sergey Volkov, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
commons	image		Garan		Commons
commons	image		Garan		Commons
commons	image		Mike Fincke and Ron Garan		Commons
commons	image		NASA Astronaut Group 18		Commons
commons	image		NEEMO 9 crew tattoos		Commons
commons	image		NEEMO 9 Garan splashdown		Commons
commons	image		NEEMO 9 Hein and Garan		Commons
commons	image		NEEMO 9 Hein and Garan		Commons
commons	image		Ron Garan CMAS Experiment		Commons
commons	image		Ron Garan CMAS Experiment		Commons

Ronald J. Garan

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