F. Story Musgrave | |
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NASA Astronaut | |
Nationality | American |
Status | Retired |
Born |
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
August 19, 1935
Other names
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Franklin Story Musgrave |
Other occupation
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Physician |
SU, B.S. 1958 UCLA, MBA 1959 Marietta College, B.A. 1960 P&S, M.D. 1964 UK, M.S. 1966 UHCL, M.A. 1987 |
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Time in space
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53d 09h 55m |
Selection | 1967 NASA Group 6 |
Total EVAs
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4 |
Total EVA time
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26 hours 19 minutes |
Missions | STS-6, STS-51-F, STS-33, STS-44, STS-61, STS-80 |
Mission insignia
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Retirement | September 2, 1997 |
Awards |
Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. 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 is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees.
Musgrave was born August 19, 1935, and grew up in , but considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown. He had six children, one of whom is deceased. His hobbies are chess, flying, gardening, literary criticism, poetry, microcomputers, parachuting, photography, reading, running, scuba diving, soaring and mulch.
In the early 1990s, Musgrave was stalked by Margaret Mary Ray, a schizophrenic woman who had previously served time for stalking comedian David Letterman.