9, జనవరి 2019, బుధవారం

Story of Story

My son Aditya is teaching weekly twice in university of Michigan apart from his job. Last week he faced another great experience. He wrote this message to me. It is very inspiring message, so I am sharing it with you all.

Story of Story .......

Story 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.

Story never finished school, ran 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. He has 7 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology. He has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30 year astronaut career.

Story 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.

Today he operates a palm farm in Orlando, FL, a production company in Sydney and a sculpture company in Burbank, CA. He is also a landscape architect, a concept artist with Walt Disney Imagineering, an innovator with Applied Minds Inc. and a professor of design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Story also performs multimedia presentations on topics such as vision, leadership, motivation, safety, quality, innovation, creativity, design, simplicity, beauty and ecology. He has 7 beautiful children: Lorelei, Scott, Holly, Todd, Jeff, Lane and Story, ranging from age 48 to 2 years; 3 beautiful grandchildren, and a beautiful wife Amanda.

Amma, I am really fortunate that *Story Musgrave*, the NASA astronaut visiting my class and listen to my lecture and talk to students at University of Michigan - this semester I challenged myself to teach class about some fun pre-engineering topics all to the dual enrollment program for high school students who are selected into UMich next year - we are rocking in spirit - two hours of my time a week is so much rewarding than anything else

Amma, he is a genius - Astronaut, neurologists surgeon and Hubble telescope designer, and six times in space - he attended my class - today is a special day 😃

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