Editing Story Musgrave (section)

==Career==
After leaving high school, Musgrave enlisted in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in 1953. He served as an aviation electrician, instrument technician and aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments in [[Korea]], [[Japan]] and [[Hawaii]], and aboard the carrier {{USS|Wasp|CV-18|6}} in the [[Far East]]. Musgrave's aviator brother Percy (1933–1959), who also served on USS ''Wasp'', died on a mission when the carrier "ran over him" after a takeoff crash.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Story Musgrave |date= |title=Designing a consilient life: Story Musgrave at TEDxWellesleyCollege |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfELc0XuW_w&t=4m59s |time=4 minutes 59 seconds |publisher=TEDx Talks}} </ref>

Although he did not qualify as a pilot until completing his stipulated astronaut training, Musgrave has flown 17,700 hours in 160 different types of civilian and military aircraft, including 7,500 hours in [[jet aircraft]].<ref name="nasabio" /> He has earned [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] ratings for [[flight instructor|instructor]], instrument instructor, [[Glider (sailplane)|glider]] instructor, and airline transport pilot in addition to [[astronaut wings]].<ref name="nasabio" /> An accomplished [[parachutist]], he has made more than 800 free falls, including over 100 experimental free-fall descents involved with the study of human aerodynamics.<ref name="nasabio" />

While serving in the Marines, he completed his [[GED]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lenahan/Musgrave|first1=Anne/Story|url=http://www.storymusgrave.com/biography_biographies_anne_lenehan_page03.htm|title=Musgrave's Personal Site}}</ref> Following his discharge, Musgrave received a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[mathematics]] and [[statistics]] from [[Syracuse University]] in 1958.<ref>{{cite podcast |title=Forever Orange: The Story of Syracuse University authors Rick Burton '80 and Scott Pitoniak '77 |url=https://anchor.fm/cuseconversations/episodes/Forever-Orange-The-Story-of-Syracuse-University-authors-Rick-Burton-80-and-Scott-Pitoniak-77-ebr0fv |access-date=April 2, 2022 |time=8:30 |work='Cuse Conversations |date=March 23, 2020}}</ref> Following his graduation from Syracuse University, Musgrave was briefly employed as a mathematician and operations analyst by the [[Eastman Kodak Company]] in [[Rochester, New York]] in 1958.

He went on to receive a [[Master of Business Administration]] degree in [[operations analysis]] and [[computer programming]] from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] in 1959, a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[chemistry]] from [[Marietta College]] in 1960, and a [[Doctor of Medicine]] degree from [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons]] in 1964.  

Upon completing his medical degree, he served a surgical internship at the [[University of Kentucky]] Medical Center from 1964 to 1965. He continued there as a [[United States Air Force]] postdoctoral fellow (1965–1966), working in [[aerospace medicine]] and physiology, and as a [[National Heart Institute]] postdoctoral [[fellow]] (1966–1967), teaching and researching cardiovascular and [[exercise physiology]]. In 1966, he earned a [[Master of Science]] degree in [[physiology]] and [[biophysics]] from the [[University of Kentucky]]. From 1967 to 1989, he practiced clinical medicine on a part-time basis at Denver General Hospital (presently known as [[Denver Health Medical Center]]) and served as an adjunct instructor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He earned a [[Master of Arts]] degree in [[literature]] from the [[University of Houston–Clear Lake]] in 1987.<ref>NASA's Scientist-Astronauts, [[Colin Burgess (author)|Burgess, Colin]] and Shayler, David, 2007, Springer Praxis, {{ISBN|0-387-21897-1}}, Pages 150-151.</ref>

He has written or been listed as a co-author of twenty-five scientific papers in the areas of [[aerospace medicine]] and physiology, [[temperature regulation]], exercise physiology, and clinical surgery.