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Mark Kelly: “By the time we ended the space shuttle program, there was…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Senator Mark Kelly on Stoicism, Space, and Staying Calm Under Pressure

Published | Video Starts at 18:12

And the last space shuttle flight was the one after my last one, the 135 times. So. Yeah, I mean, I mean, that's one of the reasons I hired test pilots for this job. Right. And By the time we ended the space shuttle program, there was still a lot we did not understand about it. Yeah. I mean, you went to test pilot school. I mean, those pilots have thousands of hours in these jets. Yeah. And yeah. To be the 108th flight period. (18:12–18:18)

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Asserts that there were significant unknowns about the space shuttle program even at its conclusion.

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