From: timrogershatesspam@charter.net   
      
   "Cameron Dorrough"  wrote in message   
   news:dcusn8$oog$1@news-01.bur.connect.com.au...   
   > Story Musgraves' description of the Shuttle at the recent IICA2005   
   > Conference in Melbourne, Australia, last week...   
   >   
   > Story gave two slide-shows from his time in space - one at the dinner on   
   > the   
   > Tuesday night, and another on Thursday on his work on the Hubble   
   > telescope.   
   >   
   > I spent quite a bit of time over the three days of the Conference talking   
   > to   
   > him about his experiences in NASA.  Of particular interest to me was his   
   > take on differences between Apollo and Shuttle systems (being one of only   
   > two people alive to fly on both) and the general superiority of the Apollo   
   > platform design.   
   >   
   > If you are not an expert in space systems and ever get the chance to hear   
   > his talks, I would highly recommend you go.   
   >   
   Story Musgrave never flew on an Apollo mission.  He was on the backup crew   
   for the first manned Skylab mission however.   
   http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/musgrave.html   
      
   Tim   
      
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