Story Musgrave
Franklin Story Musgrave is an American physician, scientist, pilot, engineer, and former NASA astronaut. Usually known as Story Musgrave, he was selected in NASA Astronaut Group 6 in 1967 and became one of the longest-serving and most versatile astronauts of the Shuttle era.
- Born
- August 19, 1935
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts,United States
Flights
6
Spacewalks
4
EVA time
26 hours, 19 minutes
In space
53 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes
Bio
Musgrave's education was unusually broad, spanning mathematics, statistics, operations analysis, chemistry, medicine, physiology, biophysics, and literature. Before NASA he also served in the Marine Corps and developed extensive aviation, medical, and technical experience.
His first spaceflight was STS-6 in 1983, Challenger's first mission. Musgrave and Donald Peterson performed the first shuttle , testing the new spacesuits and airlock systems that would support satellite servicing and later space-station assembly.
Musgrave went on to fly six shuttle missions: STS-6, STS-51-F, STS-33, STS-44, STS-61, and STS-80. His best-known work came on STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, where multiple EVAs helped restore the observatory's performance.
By the end of STS-80, Musgrave had flown on every except Endeavour and had become a symbol of the shuttle's range: science, classified payloads, satellite servicing, EVA operations, and long-duration mission experience.