... Official NASA Biography, page 2
EXPERIENCE: Musgrave entered the United States Marine Corps in 1953, served as an aviation
electrician and instrument technician, and as an aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments
in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and aboard the carrier USS WASP in the Far East. He has flown 17,700
hours in 160 different types of civilian and military aircraft, including 7,500 hours in jet
aircraft. He has earned FAA ratings for instructor, instrument instructor, glider instructor,
and airline transport pilot, and U.S. Air Force Wings. An accomplished parachutist, he has made
more than 500 free falls -- including over 100 experimental free-fall descents involved with
the study of human aerodynamics.
Dr. Musgrave was employed as a mathematician and operations analyst by the Eastman Kodak Company,
Rochester, New York, during 1958. He served a surgical internship at the University of Kentucky
Medical Center in Lexington from 1964 to 1965, and continued there as a U. S. Air Force post-doctoral
fellow (1965-1966), working in aerospace medicine and physiology, and as a National Heart Institute
post-doctoral fellow (1966-1967), teaching and doing research in cardiovascular and exercise
physiology. From 1967 to 1989, he continued clinical and scientific training as a part-time
surgeon at the Denver General Hospital and as a part-time professor of physiology and biophysics
at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.He has written 25 scientific papers in the areas
of aerospace medicine and physiology, temperature regulation, exercise physiology, and clinical
surgery.
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