Garan Credit - www.spacefacts.de

Personal: Male. Born in Yonkers, New York, USA. US Air Force US Air Force

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: NASA Group 18 - 2000. Active Entered space service: 26 July 2000.

OFFICIAL NASA BIOGRAPHY

NAME: Ronald J. Garan, Jr., Major, USAF, Pilot

BIRTHDATE/PLACE: October 30, 1961 - Yonkers, NY

RESIDENCE WHEN RECRUITED: Niceville, FL

EDUCATION: Roosevelt High School, Yonkers, NY, 1979 B.S., Economics, SUNY College at Oneonta, 1982; M.A.S., Aeronautics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univesity, 1994; M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, 1996.

POSITION WHEN RECRUITED: Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Test Director 39th Flight Test Squadron Eglin AFB, FL

27 July 2000 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 18 selected.. The group was selected to provide pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights.. Qualifications: Pilots: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. Advanced degree desirable. At least 1,000 flight-hours of pilot-in-command time. Flight test experience desirable. Excellent health. Vision minimum 20/50 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 vision; maximum sitting blood pressure 140/90. Height between 163 and 193 cm.

Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Seven pilots and ten mission specialists; 14 men and 3 women.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. Accessed at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.