Editing Story Musgrave (section)

==Spaceflight experience==

===STS-6===
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He first flew on [[STS-6]], which launched from the [[Kennedy Space Center]], on April 4, 1983, and landed at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] in [[California]], on April 9, 1983. During this maiden voyage of [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']], the crew performed the first Shuttle deployment of an IUS/TDRS satellite, and Musgrave and [[Donald H. Peterson|Don Peterson]] conducted the first Space Shuttle [[extra-vehicular activity]] (EVA) to test the new space suits and construction and repair devices and procedures. On this mission Musgrave became the first astronaut to do a spacewalk from a Space Shuttle. Mission duration was 5 days, 23 minutes, 42 seconds.

===STS-51-F===
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On [[STS-51-F]]/Spacelab-2, the crew aboard ''Challenger'' launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on July 29, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August 6, 1985. This flight was the first pallet-only Spacelab mission, and the first mission to operate the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System (IPS). It carried 13 major experiments in [[astronomy]], [[astrophysics]], and [[life sciences]]. During this mission, Musgrave served as the [[systems engineering|systems engineer]] during launch and entry, and as a pilot during the orbital operations. Mission duration was 7 days, 22 hours, 45 minutes, 26 seconds.

===STS-33===
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On [[STS-33]], he served aboard the [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']], which launched at night from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 22, 1989. This classified mission operated payloads for the [[United States Department of Defense]]. Following 79 orbits, the mission concluded on November 27, 1989, with a landing at sunset on Runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Mission duration was 5 days, 7 minutes, 32 seconds.

[[File:Hubble First Servicing EVA - GPN-2000-001085.jpg|thumb|250px|Musgrave, anchored on the end of the [[Canadarm]], prepares to be elevated to the top of the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] to install protective covers on the [[magnetometers]] as part of [[STS-61]]]]

===STS-44===
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[[STS-44]] also launched at night on November 24, 1991. The primary mission objective was accomplished with the successful deployment of a [[Defense Support Program]] (DSP) satellite with an Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) rocket booster. In addition, the crew also conducted two [[Military Man in Space]] Experiments, three radiation monitoring experiments, and numerous medical tests to support longer duration Shuttle flights. The mission was concluded in 110 orbits of the [[Earth]] with ''[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Atlantis]]'' returning to a landing on the lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on December 1, 1991. Mission duration was 6 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes, 42 seconds.

===STS-61===
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[[STS-61]] was the first [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST) servicing and repair mission.  Following a night launch from Kennedy Space Center on December 2, 1993, [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|''Endeavour'']] rendezvoused with and captured the HST. During this 11-day flight, the HST was restored to its full capabilities through the work of two pairs of astronauts during a record 5 spacewalks. Musgrave performed 3 of these spacewalks, becoming the first astronaut-physician to do a spacewalk on two space missions. After having travelled 4,433,772 miles in 163 orbits of the Earth, ''Endeavour'' returned to a night landing in [[Florida]] on December 13, 1993. Mission duration was 10 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes.

===STS-80===
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On [[STS-80]], (November 19 to December 7, 1996), the crew aboard [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] deployed and retrieved the [[Wake Shield Facility]] (WSF) and the [[Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer]] (ORFEUS) [[satellite]]s. The free-flying WSF created a super vacuum in its wake in which to grow [[thin film wafer]]s for use in semiconductors and the electronics industry. The ORFEUS instruments, mounted on the reusable [[Shuttle Pallet Satellite]], studied the origin and makeup of stars.

During deorbit and landing, Musgrave stood in the cockpit and pointed a handheld video camera out the windows. In doing so, he recorded the plasma streams over the orbiter's hull for the first time, and he is still the only astronaut to see them first-hand. In completing this mission he logged a record 278 Earth orbits and traveled over 7 million miles in 17 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes.