Musgrave, Story, 1935-
Story Musgrave, MD; Born August 19, 1935, Boston, Massachusetts, but considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown; BS, mathematics, Syracuse University, 1953; MBA, UCLA, 1958; BA Chemistry, Marietta College, 1959; MD, Columbia University, 1960; MS Physiology, University of Kentucky, 1964; MA, Literature, University of Houston, 1987; entered
United States Marine Corps in 1953; selected as a scientist-astronaut, 1967; served as a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) for STS-31, STS-35, STS-36, STS-38 and STS-41; mission specialist on STS-6 in 1983, STS-51F/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; veteran of six space flights; 1,281 hours 59 minutes, 22 seconds in space; left NASA in August 1997 to pursue private interests.
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Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker[2] and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees.
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