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GREGORY B. JARVIS
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Born August 24, 1944 in
Detroit, Michigan. Gregory received a bachelor’s degree in
electrical engineering from the State University of New York at
Buffalo and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from
Northeastern University. Jarvis was married to Marcia Jarboe
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Captain Jarvis left
active duty with the Air Force to join Hughes Aircraft. Jarvis was
chosen from over 600 engineering applicants at Hughes to become a
payload specialist and he was selected to fly on Challenger STS 51-L,
which was destroyed one minute and 13 seconds after its launch. His
duties on the STS 51-L were to conduct fluid dynamics experiments that
would have tested the reaction of satellite propellants to various
shuttle maneuvers.
Gregory B. Jarvis made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his life in
service to the nation and the space program on January 28, 1986 at 41
years of age.
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