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Air Force, and was chosen as an astronaut candidate in April 1996. (Image credit: NASA TV.)įincke is from Emsworth, Pa. Space station commander Michael Fincke gives the Pittsburgh Steelers a thumbs up in support of their NFL playoff game. Mark Kelly has two children from a previous marriage. Both were selected as astronaut candidates for NASA in April 1996. His brother, Scott Kelly, is also a NASA astronaut, and returned in March from a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station. The couple married in 2007 at an organic produce farm in Amado, Ariz.
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Kelly and Giffords met in 2003 at a young leaders' conference in China and became friends before kindling their romance. Giffords has reportedly recovered well enough to attend her husband's launch in person on Friday from the seaside spaceport in Florida. Kelly is married to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who is recovering from being shot outside a Tucson grocery store in January while meeting with constituents. "And, I think Americans should be proud that we've been able to build such a thing and operate it successfully for such a long period of time." "This is the most capable spacecraft that's ever been built and probably will be built for a long period of time," Kelly said in a NASA interview. He said he was proud to serve on the second-to-last space shuttle mission planned before NASA retires its three-orbiter fleet. Kelly, a veteran of three previous space shuttle missions, will serve as commander on Endeavour's STS-134 mission. (Image credit: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' office) Picard is wearing a diaper.Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (right) with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. This explains why we never see the bathrooms aboard the Enterprise. Apparently, space toilets are a frequent nuisance: “An alarm went off on SpaceX’s all-tourist flight earlier this year, signaling a problem with the onboard waste management system.” The lengthy mission has been a successful one - the crew grew green chiles and enjoyed the “best space tacos yet” - but I’m sorry, all I can think about is the bathroom aboard the multi-billion dollar spaceship with an “Out of Order” sign, like the world’s (universe’s?) most expensive 7-Eleven.
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“Space flight is full of lots of little challenges, this is just one more that we’ll encounter and take care of in our mission.”
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“Of course that’s sub-optimal, but we’re prepared to manage,” she said with a smile. In this weekend’s press conference, McArthur confirmed that the toilets on board Dragon Endeavor are broken. For those poor astronauts, it can’t be soon enough: the toilet aboard the ship is broken, so the crew will have to wear diapers when they, ahem, splash down. The good news is that they’re scheduled to return to Earth on Monday night, but (here’s the bad news) “all of that is dependent on the weather,” NPR reports. The team aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavor, composed of mission commander Shane Kimbrough, pilot Megan McArthur, and mission specialists Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet, have been chilling at the International Space Station since April. In space, no one can hear you flush - because the toilet isn’t working.