
Story Musgrave
Achievement & Peak Performance, Adventure / Travel, Astronauts, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Training, Motivational Speaker
Travels from Florida, USA
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Story Musgrave Profile
Dr. Story Musgrave’s varied career includes classified department of defense missions, thousands of hours in outer space, and seven graduate degrees. A maestro of multiple disciplines, Musgrave expands people’s perspectives on human potential by sharing the approaches he has used to build the adventure-filled life he wanted.
Musgrave is perhaps best known for his 30 years of service as a NASA astronaut – the longest period of service in NASA history. His work repairing and saving the Hubble Space Telescope contributed to numerous scientific discoveries and the advancement of our knowledge of the universe as well as our own planet. Astronaut, however, is just one of the many job titles on Musgrave’s impressive resume: he has also been or currently is a trauma surgeon, mechanic, concept artist, farmer, business owner, design professor, pilot, and father of seven. He is working on ongoing projects designing human and robotic vehicles for space exploration. He also enjoys transforming Florida plots into ecological home sites dotted with palm trees and Bahia grasses.
Musgrave credits his many accomplishments to his guiding philosophy of “being the best every minute of your life, for the fun of it.” He was born and raised on a small family farm in Massachusetts, where he learned to survive in the woods and fix and drive a tractor before the age of thirteen. Although he failed to graduate from high school, he trail blazed his own path to success, serving with the U.S. Marines in Korea and pursuing any opportunity he had to apply and advance his talents. Both a mathematical genius and creative artist, Musgrave is uniquely positioned to speak on a wide range of topics including vision, leadership, motivation, safety, quality, innovation, creativity, design, simplicity, beauty, and ecology.
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- Story Musgrave was born in 1935 on a dairy farm in Stockbridge, MA. He was in the forests alone at 3 and by 5 floated his homebuilt rafts on the rivers. He rode combines at 5, drove trucks and tractors at 10 and when alone in remote fields, repaired them by 13.
Story never finished school, ran off to Korea with the U.S. Marines where he was an aircraft electrician and an engine mechanic.
He started flying with the Marines and over the next 55 years accumulated 18,000 hours in over 160 aircraft. He is a parachutist with over 800 freefalls.
He has 7 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology. He has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30 year astronaut career.
Story was an NASA astronaut for over 30 years and flew on six spaceflights. He performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger′s first flight, was a pilot on an astronomy mission, conducted two classified DOD missions, was the lead spacewalker on the Hubble Telescope repair mission and on his last flight, he operated an electronic chip manufacturing satellite on Columbia.
Today he operates a palm farm in Orlando, FL, a production company in Sydney and a sculpture company in Burbank, CA. He is also a landscape architect, a concept artist with Walt Disney Imagineering, an innovator with Applied Minds Inc. and a professor of design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Story also performs multimedia presentations on topics such as vision, leadership, motivation, safety, quality, innovation, creativity, design, simplicity, beauty and ecology.
He has 7 beautiful children: Lorelei, Scott, Holly, Todd, Jeff, Lane and Story; 3 beautiful grandchildren, and a beautiful wife Amanda.
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