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An Evening with an Astronaut

  • March 16, 2017
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • CROWNE PLAZA WESTSHORE, 5303 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33609

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An Evening With An Astronaut:
Story Musgrave


Family friendly event.
Dr. Musgrave tells an inspiring message on overcoming adversity.
Bring your children!


Thursday, March 16, 2017

Registration begins at 5:00 PM
Dinner at 6:00 PM
Location: Crowne Plaza Westshore
5303 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33609

Meet Astronaut Story Musgrave, the only astronaut to go to space in all five space shuttles! 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.

He never finished high school, instead running 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.

Although never earning a high school diploma, interesting enough, he went on to obtain seven graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology. He worked as trauma surgeon along with having a 30-year astronaut career.
 
Dr. Musgrave 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.

If you have any questions for Dr. Musgrave, please submit them on your registration form.

If you have questions about this event, please contact becky@bama-fl.org.


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