Status: Retired
8/19/1935 –
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1983
Last Flight: 11/19/1996
Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker[2] and consultant to both Disney’s Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-6
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-F
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-33
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-44
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-80
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Type: Government
Abbreviation: NASA
Administration: Administrator: Bill Nelson
Founded: 1958
Launchers: Space Shuttle | SLS
Spacecraft: Orion
Country: USA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
