1. Franklin Story Musgrave was born on August 19,1935 and is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut.
22 Facts About Story Musgrave
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Story Musgrave is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California.
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Story Musgrave was born August 19,1935, the son of Percy Story Musgrave Jr.
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Story Musgrave grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown.
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Story Musgrave's name comes from his 2nd great-grandfather, Franklin Howard Story Jr.
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Story Musgrave's 4th great-grandfather, Elisha Story, was a participant in the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
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Story Musgrave attended Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and St Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, from 1947 to 1953.
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Story Musgrave has earned FAA ratings for instructor, instrument instructor, glider instructor, and airline transport pilot in addition to astronaut wings.
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Story Musgrave went on to receive a Master of Business Administration degree in operations analysis and computer programming from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959, a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Marietta College in 1960, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1964.
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Story Musgrave continued there as a United States Air Force postdoctoral fellow, working in aerospace medicine and physiology, and as a National Heart Institute postdoctoral fellow, teaching and researching cardiovascular and exercise physiology.
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Story Musgrave has written or been listed as a co-author of twenty-five scientific papers in the areas of aerospace medicine and physiology, temperature regulation, exercise physiology, and clinical surgery.
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Story Musgrave was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967 as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 6.
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Story Musgrave participated in the design and development of all Space Shuttle extra-vehicular activity equipment, including spacesuits, life support systems, airlocks and Manned Maneuvering Units.
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Story Musgrave served as a CAPCOM for the second and third Skylab missions, STS-31, STS-35, STS-36, STS-38 and STS-41.
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Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown on all five Space Shuttles.
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Story Musgrave retired from NASA in 1997, after 30 years as an astronaut.
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Story Musgrave first flew on STS-6, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, on April 4,1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, on April 9,1983.
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On this mission Story Musgrave became the first astronaut to do a spacewalk from a Space Shuttle.
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Story Musgrave performed 3 of these spacewalks, becoming the first astronaut-physician to do a spacewalk on two space missions.
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Story Musgrave has made cameo appearances on several documentary TV programs, as well as the movie Mission to Mars as "3rd CAPCOM" and the TV show Home Improvement.
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Story Musgrave has seven children, one of whom is deceased.
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Story Musgrave's hobbies include chess, flying, gardening, literary criticism, poetry, microcomputers, parachuting, photography, reading, running, scuba diving, and soaring.