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Mark Kelly: “The first flight was in 1981. That 108th flight was in 2001…”

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 18:35

To be the 108th flight period. Period is like. Obviously every plane has 108th flight, but that was like, so long ago. Yeah. And it took us in the space shuttle. The first flight was in 1981. That 108th flight was in 2001, 20 years later. Yeah. And to go to fly the next 30 flights took another decade. We didn't fly a lot. Yeah. It was expensive. It also took a lot to get the space shuttle orbiter ready for a mission. (18:35–18:45)

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Asserts the timeline of the space shuttle program's first and 108th flights.

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