Franklin Story Musgrave Essay

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Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. 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. Franklin had five sons and two daughters. Franklin M.D. (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. 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. Graduated from St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, in 1953; received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and statistics from Syracuse University in 1958, a master of business administration degree in operations analysis and computer programming from the University …show more content…

Franklin was born and raised in Boston on his parent’s farm near Stockbridge Massachusetts. Franklin lived in an old farm house. Story Musgrave has a passion for life. Throughout his career, even as a young boy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, that’s the way he has always been. Story is extremely energetic, outspoken on issues he believes in and, after spending 30 years with NASA, he’s still intimately involved in the promotion of space and humanity's quest for the unknown. In the last decade, Story has ventured into some artistic areas to express his ideas. By his own account, his early home life was violent and chaotic, but he found solace in nature and learned habits of self-sufficiency at an early age. As a small child, he wandered alone in the neighboring woods, and by his teens he was operating and repairing tractors, trucks and combines. At 18, Story Musgrave joined the United States Marine Corps. In the Corps, he served as an aircraft electrician and mechanic, and learned to fly. After completing this service, he enrolled at Syracuse University where, in 1958, he received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and statistics. Upon graduation from Syracuse, he went to work for the Eastman Kodak Company as a mathematician and operations analyst.1967: Story 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