Story Musgrave is a professional speaker and award winning motivational speaker emphasizing leadership, teamwork, innovation and creativity. Former NASA astronaut, flew on six shuttle missions. Story Musgrave delivers leadership and teamwork program as a professional speaker.

The Crew and Mission from the
Space Shuttle Mission STS-61

Dr. Story Musgrave's NASA career spanned the Apollo era to the Space Shuttleprogram into initial development of space walk strategies for the International Space Station. He loves to share his experiences as an astronaut, marine, surgeon, scientist and literary critic.

NASA selected Dr. Musgrave as an astronaut scientist in August 1967. He completed astronaut academic training and then worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program. Story learned invaluable leadership and teamwork skills as a backup science-pilot for the first Skylab mission, and was a CAPCOM for the second and third Skylab missions. Dr. Musgrave participated in the design and development of all Space Shuttle extra vehicular activity equipment including space suits, life support systems, airlocks, and manned maneuvering units. From 1979 to 1982, and 1983 to 1984, he was assigned as a test and verification pilot in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory at JSC.

Dr. Story Musgrave applies unique perspective to his favorite photographs (in the form of slides) of our Earth, the Heavens and Humanity. His powerful motivational speaker messages , and stories will stir leadership, teamwork, innovation and creativity for all audiences.

On STS-61, Story Musgrave performed three of the five space walks to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. This was by far one of the most important and complicated mission to face NASA.

Following a night launch from Kennedy Space Center on December 2, 1993, the Endeavour rendezvoused with and captured Hubble. The crew restored the Hubble Space Telescope to it's full Capabilities.

Astronaut Story Musgrave, anchored on the Space Shuttle Endeavor's robotic arm, prepares to be elevated to the top of the Hubble Space Telescope during Hubble's first servicing mission in 1993. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, inside the shuttle payload bay, assists Musgrave.

Hubble's first servicing mission replaced and repaired various instruments, but its most important task was installing technology that corrected the tiny flaw in Hubble's main mirror that distorted the telescope's view. Hubble was specially designed to be repaired and upgraded by astronauts while in orbit.

Astronaut Story Musgrave removes the Wide Field and Planetary Camera to replace it with its more powerful successor, Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, during Hubble's first servicing mission in 1993. The camera, shaped something like a grand piano, weighs 610 pounds (277 kg) on Earth, but nothing in space. It can detect stars a billion times fainter than the ones we can see with our eyes. Most of Hubble's most popular pictures have been taken with this second camera.

Story Musgrave is one of American Speakers Bureau's favorite professional speakers. Story's NASA astronaut experience fuels his passion to instill innovation, creativity, leadership and teamwork skills as a motivational speaker.

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