First name and last name | S. David Griggs |
Date of birth | 07.09.1939 |
Date of death | 17.06.1989 |
Nationality | American |
Space Agency | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Status | Died while on active duty |
Type of astronaut | Government agency |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._David_Griggs |
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.