Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1985.
1Flight
6d 23hTime in space
3h 6mEVA time
1Spacewalk
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Griggs was killed when the vintage World War II-era training aircraft he was piloting – a North American AT-6D (registration N3931S) – crashed near Earle, Arkansas.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Portland
- Education
- George Washington University; United States Naval Academy; Lincoln High School
- Awards
- Air Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Eagle Scout
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-DApril 12, 1985
Spacewalks
- STS-51-D EVA (Placeholder)1985-04-16
Born 1939-09-07 · died 1989-06-17, aged 49