JUNE 18, 2015 – Astronaut Story Musgrave (HOUR 1)

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Story Musgrave
Story Musgrave

Story Musgrave

Join us Thursday, June 18th 2015 at 7PM – 9PM PST / 10 – MIDNITE EST for a fascinating talk with former US astronaut Story Musgrave.

Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut.

Dr. Musgrave has his own story about UFO encounters with the Space Shuttle in orbit over Denver, and asserts that UFOs are indeed real.

He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney’s Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to achieve the record of six spaceflights, and he’s the most formally educated astronaut with seven academic degrees.

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.

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. 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-51-F/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, Musgrave has spent a total of 1281 hours 59 minutes, 22 seconds in space, including nearly 27 hours of EVA.

Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles. Prior to John Glenn’s return to space in 1998, Musgrave held the record for the oldest person in orbit, at age 61.[9] He retired from NASA in 1997.