Dr. Story Musgrave - Introduction

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Dr. Story Musgrave was selected by NASA as a scientist-astronaut in 1967 and participated in six space shuttle missions, spanning over three decades.

Dr. Musgrave was the lead communicator for over 20 space missions and part of the innovation teams for many of NASA's most complicated projects.

Just a few of his many historical achievements are:

• Lead team member who helped designed the space shuttle - the modern space suite and the robotic arm.
• Story was the first NASA astronaut to perform a space walk from the shuttle, and the only astronaut in history to fly on all five space shuttles.
• Lead the team to successfully fix the hubble telescope on STS -61.

Dr. Story Musgrave holds seven advanced degrees and has been awarded over fifteen honorary degrees and world- class awards including the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.

He served a surgical internship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington from 1964 to 1965, and continued there as a U. S. Air Force post-doctoral fellow (1965-1966), working in aerospace medicine and physiology, and as a National Heart Institute postdoctoral fellow, teaching and doing research in cardiovascular and exercise physiology. From 1967 to 1989, he continued clinical and scientific training as a part-time surgeon at the Denver General Hospital and as a part-time professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

Since retiring from NASA over six years ago, Story has maintained a busy schedule with hundreds of TV appearances, speeches and as a consultant to Disney's creative division and Applied Minds, a California think tank for advanced technology and business practices.

In January of of 2002 Story was awarded the Best Professional Speaker Of The Year from the American Speakers Bureau and in July of 2002 Story was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center.

Please join me to greet a master innovator, a great business visionary, a living legend, and an All - American hero - Dr. Story Musgrave. (opening applause)