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NASA selects astronauts from a diverse pool of applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds, from scientists to pilots. From the thousands of applications received, only a few are chosen to be a member of the elite NASA Astronaut Corps. Each day at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, visitors get the rare opportunity to meet a veteran NASA astronaut. 
 

Meet the Astronaut of the Day at any of the following opportunities.  See the Daily Schedule for the times for each when you arrive. 

• The daily Astronaut Encounter briefings allow time for a presentation from the astronaut and a question-and-answer session, so be prepared to ask him or her what you have always wanted to know.
• Visitors can also get an astronaut’s autograph at The Space Shop and Shuttle Express at various times during the day.
• During the all-new Chat With An Astronaut, enjoy a sampling of food and beverages while having a group conve
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  Learning Center Our Enshrinees

  • Physician & Astronaut
  • Enshrined: 2022
  • Birth: August 19, 1935

  Dr. Story Musgrave

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  • After attending high school, Musgrave served as an aircraft electrician in the United States Marine Corps on the USS Wasp. He was enveloped by his passion for aviation and quickly signed up for flight training after being honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps
  • Upon leaving the Marine Corps, Musgrave pursued his educational goals at several esteemed universities. Including Syracuse University, Marietta College, and Columbia University.
  • Pioneered research in human anatomy and flight. Musgrave eventually became a physician and an expert in the effects of aviation on the human body.
  • In 1967, he was selected by NASA for NASA’s second group of Scientist Astronauts. Although, with budget cuts plaguing NASA, his future as an astronaut was uncertain.
  • Musgrave would be selected in 1983 to serve as Mission Specialist on STS-6. Musgrave was the only astronaut to fly on all five Space Shuttles before the disbandment
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    Musgrave, Franklin Story

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    American physician mission specialist astronaut 1967-1997. Flew in space six times.

    Status: Inactive; Active 1967-1997. Born: 1935-08-19. Spaceflights: 6 . Total time in space: 53.41 days. Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts.

    Grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. Polymath with degrees in mathematics and statistics, business administration, operations analysis and computer programming, chemistry, medicine, physiology and biophysics, and literature. Educated UCLA; Marietta; Columbia; Kentucky; Houston.

    Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Story Musgrave (M.D.)
    NASA Astronaut (Former)

    PERSONAL DATA: Born August 19, 1935, in Boston, Massachusetts, but considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown. Single. Six children (one deceased). His hobbies are chess, flying, gardening, literary criticism, microcomputers, parachuting, photography, reading, running, scuba diving, and soaring.

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