I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

This flight was the first pallet-only Spacelab mission and the first mission to operate the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System (IPS). He has flown 17700 hours in 160 different types of civilian and military aircraft including 7500 hours in jet aircraft. "
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Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California.