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Mark Kelly
American politician, astronaut, and naval officer (born 1964)
For other people named Mark Kelly, see Mark Kelly (disambiguation).
Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, retired astronaut, and United States Navycaptain serving as the seniorUnited States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Kelly flew combat missions during the Gulf War as a naval aviator before being selected as a NASASpace Shuttle pilot in 1996. He flew his first space mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108, then piloted STS-121 in 2006, and commanded STS-124 in 2008 and STS-134 (the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour) in 2011. In January 2011, Kelly's wife, then-Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, was shot and nearly killed in an assassination attempt in Arizona. Kelly retired from the Navy and NASA that October. In 2013, Kelly and Giffords founded a nonprofit political action committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions (later merged into Giffords), which campaigned for gun control measures like u
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Senator Mark Kelly
How did your Naval Postgraduate School education impact your career in the U.S. Navy and a NASA? How did it equip you to contribute to U.S. national security in your career as a politician?
The engineering education that I got at the Naval Postgraduate School gave me the academic background I needed to become competitive to be selected as an astronaut. When I came to grad school, I had already flown 39 combat missions, and thought I was a pretty good pilot. But to be a test pilot and an astronaut, you need to be more than just a good pilot. You need to understand your airplanes – or space shuttles – how they work, what their limits are, and what can go wrong. That’s what I learned at the Naval Postgraduate School, and I called upon that knowledge often, whether I was pushing the F-18 to its limits as a test pilot or testing contingency abort procedures in the space shuttle simulator. More than just the engineering education, the Naval Postgraduate School also made me a better problem solver, something that I put to use at every stage of my career, includi
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Astronaut Mark Kelly: Biography
Mark Kelly is an astronaut who has flown four times in space, although he is best remembered for commanding the second-to-last shuttle mission. He is also one-half of the only set of astronaut twins who have flown into space; both Kelly and his brother, Scott, were selected by NASA in 1996.
Late in Kelly's NASA career, he rose to international prominence for reasons outside of space exploration. His wife, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in the head on Jan. 8, 2011, during a meeting with constituents. Giffords survived the shooting and was in rehabilitation when she attended Kelly's last launch on May 16, 2011 — just five months later.
Early life
Kelly grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, and was 5 years old when Apollo 11 took people to the moon's surface for the first time. Kelly said in a NASA 2011 pre-flight interview that he remembered the later missions more, but it seemed "completely out of the question" for "some kid from New Jersey," even though his town was adjacent to another town where Apollo 11's lunar module pilot, Buzz