Brat Scotta startuje w wyborach do Senatu w miejsce zmarłego Johna McCaina.
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Former astronaut to run for U.S. Senate seatby Jeff Foust — February 12, 2019
Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut who flew on four shuttle missions, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Arizona Feb. 12. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsWASHINGTON — Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly announced Feb. 12 his intent to run for a United States Senate seat in Arizona.
Kelly, a Democrat, announced his plans to run for the seat on social media, linking to a four-and-a-half-minute video largely biographical in nature. That included a mention of his career as a NASA astronaut.
“You know, seeing that sunrise from space for the very first time, it is incredible,” he says in the opening of the video. “It becomes pretty obvious pretty early when you get into space that we’re all kind of in this together.”
Kelly is running for the seat held by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) until his death in August. Former Sen. Jon Kyl was appointed by the state’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, to fill the seat, but Kyl held the seat only through the end of 2018 before stepping down. (...)
If elected, Kelly would join an exclusive group of senators who have also flown in space. John Glenn, the first American in space in 1962, was elected to the Senate from Ohio in 1974. The Democrat served four terms there, and in his final months in office in 1998 flew again in space on the STS-95 shuttle mission.
Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, was elected to the Senate as a Republican from New Mexico in 1976, but lost reelection in 1982. Jake Garn was already a Republican senator from Utah when he flew on a shuttle mission in 1985, the first and to date only sitting senator to fly in space. Bill Nelson, who flew on the final shuttle mission before the Challenger accident in 1986 as a member of the House, was elected to the Senate as a Democrat from Florida in 2000 and served three terms. He lost his bid for a fourth term last November.
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