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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 Jarvis.

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.