Story Musgrave
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Franklin Story Musgrave 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 be
Musgrave in 1979
Musgrave, anchored on the end of the Canadarm, prepares to be elevated to the top of the Hubble Space Telescope to install protective covers on the magnetometers as part of STS-61
STS-61
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STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. T
Story Musgrave
…He was a mission specialist on STS-6 (1983), STS-51-F/Spacelab-2 (1985), STS-33 (1989), STS-44 (1991), and STS-80 (1996); and the payload commander on STS-61 (1993). In total, Musgrave spent 53 days, 9 hours, and 55 minutes on space missions, including nearly 27 hours of Extravehicular activity (spacewalks…
Musgrave being raised to the top of Hubble by Canadarm, as it sits in Endeavour's payload bay.
Standing: Covey, Hoffman, Akers Seated: Bowersox, Thornton, Musgrave, NicollierSpace Shuttle program← STS-58 (58)STS-60 (60) → Hubble Space Telescope missions← STS-31 (Deploy)STS-82 (SM2) →
Launch of the first servicing mission
Approaching the telescope.