S. David Griggs

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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 – crashed near Earle, Arkansas.

1939 — 1989  WikimediaWikidata
Stanley David Griggs
military officer, astronaut, 

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  • STS-51-D
    human spaceflight
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    classorbitSTS-51-DCharles D. Walker, Donald E. Williams, Jake Garn, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Karol J. Bobko, Margaret Rhea Seddon, S. David Griggs, human spaceflight,Wikidata
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