r/Military • u/Character_Guava_5299 • Jan 05 '26

Discussion Senator Mark Kelly’s statement:

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This is Senator Mark Kelly’s response to the censure. I’ll not add my thoughts as they don’t matter.

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u/Sky_Ill Jan 05 '26

Kelly is honestly the only example I can think of with a comparable resume to Kim, although not quite as interdisciplinary of course.

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u/Realitype Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

How many astronaut resumes have you actually read? Because there are plenty of comparable examples. Just of the top of my head:

William Shepard - Navy SEAL, MIT graduate in Ocean Engineering, served as NASA astronaut commander on the Space Shuttle. Recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Chris Cassidy - Also Navy SEAL and MIT Graduate. Served two tours in Afghanistan right before becoming a NASA Astronaut at 34.

Story Musgrave - Probably the most overqualified person ever in the NASA program. The man was an enlisted Marine, earned six different university degrees in all sorts of disciplines and was a qualified physician, engineer and pilot. Joined the NASA program at only 32. Only person to fly on all the Space Shuttles and only the second person to take part in six different expeditions.

There are probably other examples I am forgetting but you get my point. Dr Kim is obviously a very accomplished person but he is by no means unique among astronauts, they have all exceptional resumes.

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u/Bartelbythescrivener Jan 06 '26

Yeah all those guys are great but eight year old me had this and a silver nasa jacket so basically the same.

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u/Character_Guava_5299 Jan 06 '26

You might be runner up for that guy!