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Space Forum / Space Flight / August 2005Butterfly strapped to a bullet
Story Musgraves' description of the Shuttle at the recent IICA2005 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, last week... Story gave two slide-shows from his time in space - one at the dinner on the Tuesday night, and another on Thursday on his work on the Hubble telescope. I spent quite a bit of time over the three days of the Conference talking to him about his experiences in NASA. Of particular interest to me was his take on differences between Apollo and Shuttle systems (being one of only two people alive to fly on both) and the general superiority of the Apollo platform design. If you are not an expert in space systems and ever get the chance to hear his talks, I would highly recommend you go. Cameron:-) > Story Musgraves' description of the Shuttle at the recent IICA2005 > Conference in Melbourne, Australia, last week... [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > If you are not an expert in space systems and ever get the chance to hear > his talks, I would highly recommend you go. Story Musgrave never flew on an Apollo mission. He was on the backup crew for the first manned Skylab mission however. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/musgrave.html Tim >> him about his experiences in NASA. Of particular interest to me was his >> take on differences between Apollo and Shuttle systems (being one of only [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > for the first manned Skylab mission however. > http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/musgrave.html People who flew on both: John Young A-10, A-16 then STS-1, STS-9 Ken Mattingly A-16 then STS-4, STS-51-C Paul Weitz SL-2 then STS-6 Jack Lousma SL-3 then STS-3 Owen Garriott [1] SL-3 then STS-9 Vance Brand ASTP then STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35 Six people to have flown in space on both, all - at a first glance - still alive. One to have flown Mercury and Shuttle, who's alive (John Glenn), and one to have flown Gemini and Shuttle (John Young, ditto). Musgrave is, however, the only person to have flown in all five Orbiters. [1] Checking this, I found he was Richard Garriott's father. The things you discover...  Signature-Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk > Owen Garriott [1] SL-3 then STS-9 > > [1] Checking this, I found he was Richard Garriott's father. The > things you discover... I may be revealing my age to admit I found out Richard was Owen's son. And that was only after I'd known he was "Lord British"... SignatureJRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. > Story Musgrave never flew on an Apollo mission. He was on the backup crew > for the first manned Skylab mission however. > http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/musgrave.html You are quite right - sorry about that. There is a big difference between "trained" and "flew". After re-checking it seems his main claim-to-fame was that he's the only person to fly on all five Shuttles. I'll try not to fluff up that badly next time! Cameron:-) |
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