S. David Griggs

S. David Griggs is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 1 space flights and engaging in 1 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.

Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Griggs was killed when the vintage World War II-era training aircraft he was piloting – a North American AT-6D (registration N3931S) – crashed near Earle, Arkansas.

• Date of Birth: 09/07/1939
• Date of Death: 06/17/1989
• Status: Died While In Active Service
• First Flight: 04/12/1985
• Last Flight: 04/12/1985
• In Space: No

Launches

• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-D

Spacewalk

STS-51-D EVA (Placeholder)

The spacewalk began at 04/16/1985 00:00 UTC and ended at 04/16/1985 03:06 UTC on the Syncom IV-3 (LEO) for a total of 3 hours and 6 minutes.

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