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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, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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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]
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Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician, attorney, and former astronaut who served from 2001 to 2019 as a United States senator from Florida and from 2021 to 2025 as the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
John Blaha, an astronaut stationed aboard the Mir space station, requested permission to vote in the 1996 presidential election.A NASA plan to allow Blaha to vote electronically was stopped when the Secretary of State of Texas pointed out that the state had no provision for any electronic voting. [3]
Michael James Foreman (born March 29, 1957) is a retired U.S. Navy pilot, NASA astronaut, and local politician.While with NASA, Foreman was part of a mission that delivered the Japanese Experiment Module and the Canadian Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator to the International Space Station.
Astronaut Charles Bolden described Garn as "the ideal candidate to do it, because he was a veteran Navy combat pilot who had more flight hours than anyone in the Astronaut Office". [4] Fellow 51-D payload specialist Charles Walker—who also suffered from space sickness on the flight despite having flown before—stated that: