National Aeronautics and Space Administration

S. David Griggs

United States of America

S. David Griggs
Died While In Active Service

Biography

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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.

Type

Government

Age

49

Date of Birth

September 7, 1939

First Flight

April 12, 1985

Last Flight

April 12, 1985

Career Stats

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1

Flights

1

Landings

1

Spacewalks

P6DT23H55M23S

Time in Space

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