Gregory Jarvis

Gregory B. Jarvis
Hughes Aircraft Payload Specialist
Nationality	American
Born	(1944-08-24)August 24, 1944 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	January 28, 1986(1986-01-28) (aged 41) Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.
Other names	Gregory Bruce Jarvis
Other occupation	Engineer
Alma mater	SUNY Buffalo, B.S. 1967 Northeastern University, M.S. 1969 West Coast University
Rank	Captain, USAF
Missions	STS-51-L
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Gregory Bruce "Greg" Jarvis (August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist for Hughes Aircraft.

Jarvis graduated from Mohawk Central High School (later renamed to Gregory B. Jarvis High School, which eventually became the Gregory B. Jarvis Middle School in his honor), in Mohawk, New York, in 1962. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1967, and a M.S. degree in the same discipline from Northeastern University in 1969. Jarvis joined the United States Air Force the same year and served until 1973, when he was honorably discharged as a Captain. Thereafter he worked for Hughes Aircraft. While working at Hughes, Jarvis completed all of the coursework for a master's in Science Management at West Coast University in Los Angeles.

While pursuing his master's degree at Northeastern, Jarvis worked at Raytheon in Bedford, Massachusetts, where he was involved in circuit design on the SAM-D missile. In July 1969, he entered active duty in the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to the Space Division in El Segundo, California. As a Communications Payload Engineer, in the Satellite Communications Program Office, he worked on advanced tactical communications satellites. He was involved in the concept formulation, source selection, and early design phase of the FLTSATCOM communications payload. After being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1973, with the rank of Captain, he joined the Hughes Aircraft Company's Space and Communications group, where he worked as a Communications Subsystem Engineer on the MARISAT Program.