Dr. Story Musgrave: "Shuttle Endeavour Missions to Repair the Hubble Space Telescope"

Dr. Story Musgrave: "Shuttle Endeavour Missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope" The Astronomical Society of Long Island and The Optical Society of Long Island Proudly present Dr. Story Musgrave.

(PRWEB) April 2, 2005 -- Story Musgrave is a professional motivational speaker emphasizing leadership, teamwork, innovation and creativity. Former NASA astronaut, Story Musgrave delivers leadership and teamwork skills as a professional speaker. His powerful motivational speaker messages,and stories will stir leadership, teamwork, innovation and creativity for all audiences.

Dr. Musgraves NASA career spanned the Apollo era to the Space Shuttle program into initial development of space walk strategies for the International Space Station. He loves to share his experiences as an astronaut, marine, surgeon, scientist and literary critic.

Dr. Musgrave participated in the design and development of all Space Shuttle extra vehicular activity equipment including space suits, life support systems, airlocks, and manned maneuvering units. From 1979 to 1982, and 1983 to 1984, he was assigned as a test and verification pilot in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory at JSC. Storys NASA astronaut experience fuels his passion to instill innovation, creativity, leadership and teamwork skills as a motivational speaker.

Perhaps the most dramatic of Story Musgraves space mission was the 5th, on the Shuttle Endeavour. Dr. Musgrave commanded the mission to repair the damaged Hubble Space Telescope. During this 11-day mission, the Telescope was restored to full functionality. The repairs required five spacewalks, three performed by Dr. Musgrave himself.

Please join us at: The Reckson Center at the Museums at Mitchel Cradle of Aviation on Monday evening, June 20, 2005 at 7:00 PM.

This event is sponsored by The Astronomical Society of Long Island and made possible by a grant from The Optical Society of Long Island.

For ticket information for this Not For Profit Event, call Tony Pirera at Spectrum Thin Films 1-631-589-3502 til 5:00pm or e-mail: tonystf@aol.com

Tickets are $12.00 per person Advanced Sales Only. Very Limited Seating.

For additional information please visit our web site: www.endeavour.zoomshare.com/ or: www.asliclub.org

The Astronomical Society will attend the Northeast Astronomy Forum 2005, America's Premier Astronomy Expo, at Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY. Tickets will be sold at the ASLI booth April 16th and 17th.

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