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United States Senator
from Arizona Incumbent
Assumed office
December 2, 2020Serving with Ruben Gallego
Assumed office
December 2, 2020Serving with Ruben Gallego
Preceded by Martha McSally
Personal details
United States Senator
from Arizona Incumbent
Assumed office
December 2, 2020Serving with Ruben Gallego
Assumed office
December 2, 2020Serving with Ruben Gallego
Preceded by Martha McSally
Personal details
Wikipedia
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Mark Kelly - Wikipedia
1 day ago - It was a New York Times number ... Goes to Mars. In 2014, Giffords and Kelly coauthored Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence. In 2015, Kelly and Martha Freeman co-wrote Astrotwins: Project Blastoff, a fictional story about twins Scott and Mark who build a space capsule in ...
U.S. Senate
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About Mark - Senator Mark Kelly
July 22, 2025 - Senator Kelly’s first of four trips into space was as pilot of STS-108 in December 2001, during which he helped deliver equipment, supplies, and additional crew members to the International Space Station.
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Sen. Mark Kelly Reflects on His Time as a NASA Astronaut - YouTube
Mark Kelly hits back at Musk over astronauts 'stuck in space'
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20 years later, Mark Kelly reflects on the space shuttle Columbia ...
In 2015, NASA did a one of its kind "Twins Study" when it send astronaut Scott Kelly to International Space Station for an entire year while his retired twin astronaut Mark Kelly was observed on Earth for comparison.
And for that reason the age difference between them changed slightly. More on reddit.com
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July 23, 2024Astronaut Scott Kelly was paid $70/ hr by NASA until his retirement where he would be paid $10/hr to compensate for his debriefings and participation as a medical test subject
Being paid $70/hour for the responsibility of a $150B hardware as ISS commander is quite a bargain. I wonder how many Boeing managers get more without being held accountable for any of their actions? More on reddit.com
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February 6, 2024What did Mark Kelly do when he got home from SPACE?
This is what you want! More on reddit.com
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August 29, 2019What were Mark Kelly’s accomplishments as an astronaut?
Mark Kelly flew four space shuttle missions, including as pilot of Endeavour and Discovery, and as mission commander. He was involved in a landmark study comparing the effects of space on his twin brother Scott, who was in space, and himself on Earth.
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Mark Kelly | Astronaut, Gabby Giffords, U.S. Senator, 2024 election, ...
Why did Mark Kelly face controversy in 2025?
Mark Kelly appeared in a video reminding military members they could refuse unlawful orders, which led to criticism from U.S. Pres. Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Hegseth ordered a review of Kelly’s actions, which could potentially lead to a demotion that would affect his Navy pension.
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Mark Kelly | Astronaut, Gabby Giffords, U.S. Senator, 2024 election, ...
What are Mark Kelly’s achievements in politics?
Mark Kelly won a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona in a special election in 2020 and was re-elected in 2022. His background as an astronaut and Arizona’s changing demographics contributed to his ability to win a seat that had been held by Republicans, including Barry Goldwater and John McCain, for more than 50 years. He was on Kamala Harris’s short list for vice president in 2024.
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Mark Kelly | Astronaut, Gabby Giffords, U.S. Senator, 2024 election, ...
NASA
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MARK E. KELLY (CAPTAIN, USN) NASA ASTRONAUT
Kelly’s first trip into space was as pilot of STS-108. After several delays, Endeavour lifted off on December 5, 2001, on the · final shuttle mission of 2001. STS-108 Endeavour visited the ISS, delivering over three tons of equipment, supplies, and a · fresh crew to the orbiting outpost.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Mark Kelly | Astronaut, Gabby Giffords, U.S. Senator, 2024 election, Donald Trump & Biography | Britannica
1 week ago - Mark Kelly is an American astronaut and senator. In 2001 Kelly made his first spaceflight as pilot of the space shuttle Endeavour. In 2003, he married Gabby Giffords, who in 2011 was nearly killed in an assassination attempt.
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Faces of NPS: Senator Mark Kelly
Kelly's first of four trips into space was as pilot of STS-108 in December 2001, during which he helped deliver equipment, supplies and additional crew members to the International Space Station.
Mark Kelly
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About Mark - Mark Kelly for Senate
October 19, 2022 - He spent more than 50 days in space and lived on the International Space Station. Mark and Gabby were married in 2007. After an assassination attempt nearly took Gabby’s life, she retired from Congress, but has continued her important work ...
Time
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NASA's One-Year Mission with Mark and Scott Kelly
December 18, 2014 - It’s a matter of historical record that Scott and Mark Kelly never got around to building an airplane. They never built a rocket ship either, but on both counts they can be forgiven.
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Who is Mark Kelly, the senator the Pentagon is targeting for urging troops to defy illegal orders?
November 25, 2025 - Mark Kelly to active military duty ... and pilot who flew combat missions in the first Gulf War. He went on to be a military test pilot and NASA astronaut, part of a small club of space explorers who went on to serve in ...
ABC News
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Astronaut Mark Kelly Decides to Fly Space Shuttle, Explains Decision - ABC News
February 4, 2011 - Astronaut Mark Kelly to leave wife Gabrielle Giffords' bedside to board space shuttle Endeavour.
Space.com
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Astronaut Mark Kelly: Biography | Space
June 8, 2016 - Kelly's first command was STS-124 Discovery in 2008. Its main goal was to bring up the Kibo pressurized module and its robotic arm, but another urgent task came up at the last minute — bringing a new toilet part to the ISS to fix what was ...
AZCentral
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Mark Kelly, Arizona senator censured by Pentagon, was once an astronaut
1 week ago - Before he found himself a target of the Trump administration as a U.S. senator, Mark Kelly was a veteran NASA astronaut who flew to space on four separate missions in a decade.
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Senator Mark Kelly
I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife ...
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly | SpaceNext50 | Encyclopedia Britannica
June 27, 2019 - Credit: Office of U.S. House of ... · The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft seen as it lands with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos near Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016....
NASA
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Twins Study - NASA
July 10, 2025 - NASA's year-long Twins Study compared identical twins – Scott and Mark Kelly – while Scott was in space and Mark was on Earth.
U.S. Senate
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Senator-Mark-Kelly-Bio.pdf
Mark Kelly has served his country as a U.S. Navy combat pilot, a NASA astronaut, and now as a U.S. Senator for Arizona. He is an independent leader who came to
TIME
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Mark Kelly and the History of Astronauts Jumping to Politics | TIME
July 30, 2024 - As a NASA astronaut, he was part of four space shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011, amassing more than 54 days in space and covering more than 22 million miles. Now he's a Senator from Arizona who is on the short list to be Vice President ...
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Where Did Mark Kelly Go to College? | BestColleges
August 6, 2024 - While I didn’t make it to Mars, I did fly into space four times and commanded the Space Shuttle, and it was setting that bar for myself that gave me the motivation I needed to put in the work.
Wikipedia
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Scott Kelly (astronaut) - Wikipedia
1 week ago - Mark was the commander of STS-134, the final flight of Endeavour, and launched on May 16, 2011, with Giffords in attendance. STS-134 had originally been scheduled to launch in February 2011, which would have made the Kelly brothers the first ...
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Mark Kelly and the History of Astronauts Making the Jump to Politics - YouTube
Mark Kelly knows a thing or two about flying high—both literally and otherwise. As a NASA astronaut, he was part of four space shuttle missions between 2001 ...
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