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Mark Kelly: “In the space shuttle, we train a lot, thousands of hours.”

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 20:32

Are those, are. Those are things that you prepared mentally for. Like you roughly knew what to do or what do you do when everything is so falling apart. In the space shuttle, we train a lot, thousands of hours. I have. I have about 6,000 hours of flight time. I think I stopped counting at some point. I probably have as much time in the space shuttle simulator. Yeah. (20:32–20:36)

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Asserts that extensive training, amounting to thousands of hours, was conducted for space shuttle missions.

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