Story Musgrave was born on a dairy farm in Stockbridge, MA. He was in the forests alone at three and, by 5, floated his homebuilt rafts on the rivers. He rode combines at 5, drove trucks and tractors at 10, and when alone in remote fields, repaired them by 13.
Story never finished high school. He went to Korea with the U.S. Marines, where he was an aircraft electrician and an engine mechanic. He started flying with the Marines and, over the next 55 years, accumulated 18,000 hours in over 160 aircraft.
He is a parachutist with over 800 freefalls. He has seven graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature, and psychology. He has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30-year astronaut career. Story was a NASA astronaut for over 30 years and flew on six spaceflights. He performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger's first flight, was a pilot on an astronomy mission, conducted two classified DOD missions, and if you like looking at images of deep space from the Hubble Space Telescope, you can thank Story Musgrave.
And that's just part of Story’s story!
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