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 psy...
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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, ranging from age 48 to 2 years; 3 beautiful grandchildren, and a beautiful wife Amanda
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People have been talking about you in the hallways . . . so many valuable and relevant lessons of life and of the profession . . . the spirit you brought with you is contagious, we will carry it with us for a very long time . . .
You, Sir, are an inspiration for everyone! From Gearhead to Trauma Surgeon and everything in between, you are the ultimate Kung-Fu in all that you take on— just overall awesomeness!
My daughters are benefiting greatly from learning lessons and principles from a life lead to the fullest. You are the perfect example of how a few powerful, yet sympathetic, words can make a huge difference in one’s life.
It was an absolute honor hearing/watching you speak. You left such an incredibly powerful impression on me, I will never forget you. If I am lucky enough I will see you in action once again.
I wound up talking about your speech for days . . . You are an extreme inspiration to many of us . . . you just watched for the opportunities and went with your heart and your gut toward some future you did not know.
I’ll never forget your passion for space exploration and your articulate compelling descriptions of the personal experiences of spaceflight. I can live it just as if I was there.
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Dr. Story Musgrave brings the passion, love, vision, and lessons of human spaceflight down to Earth for all of his audiences.
The lessons learned from Story’s unique experiences and leadership roles reflect expertise in a multitude of areas relevant to achievement in today’s dynamic business environment.
Story customizes all his programs to address the following topics yet structured
to accommodate the clients’ specific needs and wants.
Story performs multimedia corporate presentations on the topics of:
Design-Driven Innovation
Project Management
Operations
Human Performance
Reliability, Quality and Safety
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Story Musgrave - Design a life for yourself, one little step at a time
Story Musgrave Pine Tree High
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