Designing a consilient life: Story Musgrave at TEDxWellesleyCollege

Story Musgrave was born on a dairy farm in Stockbridge, MA. He was in the forests alone at 3, floated his homebuilt rafts on rivers and rode combines by 5, drove trucks and tractors at 10, and repaired them alone by 13. He never finished school, and ran off to Korea with the U. S. Marines where he was an aircraft electrician and engine mechanic. Over the next 58 years, he accumulated 18,000 hours in over 160 aircrafts. He is a parachutist with over 800 freefalls. He has 6 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature, and 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon. As a NASA astronaut, he flew on six spaceflights, performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger's first flight, piloted an astronomy mission, conducted two classified DOD missions, was the lead spacewalker on the Hubble Telescope repair mission, operated an electronic chip manufacturing satellite on Columbia, and was the communicator in mission control for 25 missions. Today he is a producer/director of multimedia, landscape architect, heavy equipment operator, innovator with Applied Minds Inc, and design professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

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