First Ham in Space: W5LFL
In 1965 Owen K. Garriott was one of the first six Astronauts selected by NASA. His first space flight aboard Skylab in 1973 set a new record for time in space. The bar was a littler lower then. they were in space for 60 days, which was double the previous record.

His second space flight was aboard Spacelab-1 in 1983. It was s shorter trip of only 10 days. Over 70 separate experiments were conducted, most of which were for the testing of spacelab-1 itself for research. It was in this ten day window that he operated the world's first Amateur Radio Station from space, W5LFL. This part of the project was called The Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX.) He accomplished two-way contact with about 350 other hams and also received approximately 10,000 QSL cards from 23 countries. One of these contacts was none other than JY1, operated by King Hussein of Jordan. All audio was recorded by NASA.

Audio posted here: AA5TB