Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. Musgrave’s biography is full of anecdotes and inspirational events. Before becoming an astronaut, he worked as an electrician, a mathematician, a computer programmer, a mechanic, a pilot, and a surgeon. His 30 year career at NASA spanned from the Apollo era to the Space Shuttle program, during which he flew six Space Shuttle missions, beginning in 1983 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger and ending his astronaut career in 1996 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, at the age of 61.
Musgrave, one of NASA’s most experienced astronauts, is also the only one to have flown on all five Space Shuttles. 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…
