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Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, retired astronaut, and United States Navy captain serving as the senior United States senator from Arizona, since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician.He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. [3]
John Glenn, shown here before his trip for mission STS-95 in 1998, was a NASA astronaut who later became a US Senator. The first American to orbit the Earth, he was elected to the Senate in 1974 and served until 1999. An astronaut-politician is a person who has entered politics after traveling to space as an astronaut. Even with the increasing ...
Former U.S. astronaut and Senator John Glenn died on Thursday at age 95 at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.
In 2019, the Arizona senator also reported $1.5 million in income from Kelly Aerospace Consulting LLC, an Arizona limited liability company he registered in 2017, along with other income he earned ...
In 1986, Nelson became the second sitting member of Congress (and the first member of the House) to travel into space. He went through NASA training with fellow "congressional observer" Senator Jake Garn, who flew on STS-51-D in 1985. Nelson served as a payload specialist on Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-61-C mission from January 12 to 18, 1986
Neil Armstrong had a pilot's license before a driver's license. As commander of Apollo 11, he was the first person to step on the moon in July 1969.
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.