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SUMMARY:UAB Speaker Series Real Heroes: No Capes, No Masks, No Distractions
DESCRIPTION:
 Want to hear an out of this world story? Take 
 a break and listen to the only astronaut to have 
 flown missions on all five space shuttles, 
 Story Musgrave, MD. Over the course of 30 years, 
 Musgrave paved his way into NASA history 
 as one of its most colorful, passionate and 
 dedicated astronauts. He served on two satellite-launching 
 missions and led the spacewalking 
 team that repaired the Hubble Space Telescope 
 in 1993. Musgrave spent 1281 hours in space 
 but will only be at MSU for 1 hour; so don't 
 miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity! 
 Light refreshments will be provided.\n
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 Story 
 Musgrave was born in 1935 on a dairy 
 farm in Stockbridge, MA. He was in the forests 
 alone at age 3, and by age 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 free falls. 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.\n\n
 Price: FREE\n
 Sponsor: UAB\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.uabevents.com\n
 Contact name: University Activities Board\n
 Contact phone: 355-3354\n
 Contact email: uab@rhs.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://uabevents.com\n
LOCATION:MSU Union Ballroom
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