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Story Musgrave
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Musgrave brings the passion, love, vision, and lessons of
human space flight down to Earth for all of his audiences
as a professional public speaker.
PERSONAL
DATA: Born August 19, 1935, in Boston, Massachusetts, but
considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown. Single.
Six children (one deceased). His hobbies are chess, flying,
gardening, literary criticism, microcomputers, parachuting.
photography, reading, running, scuba diving, and soaring.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science in mathematics and statistics - Syracuse
University in 1958
Master of Business Administration in operations analysis and
computer programming from UCLA in 1959
Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Marietta College in 1960
Doctorate in medicine from Columbia University in 1964
Master of Science in physiology and biophysics from the University
of Kentucky in 1966
Master of Arts in literature from the University of Houston
in 1987
SPECIAL
HONORS: National Defense Service Medal and an Outstanding
Unit Citation as a member of the United States Marine Corps
Squadron VMA-212 (1954); United States Air Force Post-doctoral
Fellowship (1965-1966); National Heart Institute Post- doctoral
Fellowship (1966-1967); Reese Air Force Base Commander's Trophy
(1969); American College of Surgeons I.S. Ravdin Lecture (1973);
NASA Exceptional Service Medals (1974 & 1986); Flying
Physicians Association Airman of the Year Award (1974 &
1983); NASA Space Flight Medals (1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993,
1996); NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1992).
EXPERIENCE:
Musgrave entered the United States Marine Corps in 1953, served
as an aviation electrician and instrument technician, and
as an aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments
in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and aboard the carrier USS WASP in
the Far East.
He has
flown 17,700 hours in 160 different types of civilian and
military aircraft, including 7,500 hours in jet aircraft.
He has earned FAA ratings for instructor, instrument instructor,
glider instructor, and airline transport pilot, and U.S. Air
Force Wings. An accomplished parachutist, he has made more
than 500 free falls including over 100 experimental free-fall
descents involved with the study of human aerodynamics.
Dr. Musgrave
was employed as a mathematician and operations analyst by
the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, during 1958.
He served
a surgical internship at the University of Kentucky Medical
Center in Lexington from 1964 to 1965, and continued there
as a U. S. Air Force post-doctoral fellow (1965-1966), working
in aerospace medicine and physiology, and as a National Heart
Institute post-doctoral fellow (1966-1967), teaching and doing
research in cardiovascular and exercise physiology. From 1967
to 1989, he continued clinical and scientific training as
a part-time surgeon at the Denver General Hospital and as
a part-time professor of physiology and biophysics at the
University of Kentucky Medical Center.
He has
written 25 scientific papers in the areas of aerospace medicine
and physiology, temperature regulation, exersize physiology,
and clinical surgery.
NASA EXPERIENCE:
Dr. Musgrave was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA
in August 1967. He completed astronaut academic training and
then worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program.
He was the backup science-pilot for the first Skylab mission,
and was a CAPCOM for the second and third Skylab missions.
Dr. Musgrave participated in the design and development of
all Space Shuttle extra vehicular activity equipment including
space suits, life support systems, airlocks, and manned maneuvering
units. From 1979 to 1982, and 1983 to 1984, he was assigned
as a test and verification pilot in the Shuttle Avionics Integration
Laboratory at JSC. He served as a spacecraft communicator
(CAPCOM) for STS-31, STS-35, STS-36, STS-38 and STS-41, and
lead CAPCOM for a number of subsequent flights. He was a mission
specialist on STS-6 in 1983, STS-5F/Spacelab-2 in 1985, STS-33
in 1989 and STS-44 in 1991, was the payload commander on STS-61
in 1993, and a mission specialist on STS-80 in 1996.. A veteran
of six space flights, Dr. Musgrave has spent a total of 1,281
hours 59 minutes, 22 seconds in space.
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