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.