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S. David Griggs

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1939-09-07

Deceased 1989-06-17

Status Died While In Active Service

Type Government

Agency

Astronaut 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.