On November 3, Arizona elected Democratic candidate and former astronaut Mark Kelly to complete John McCain’s six-year term in the Senate, which ends in January 2023. Before joining NASA’s 1996 class of astronaut candidates, Kelly served as a test pilot and captain in the United States Navy. Kelly completed four missions to the International Space Station before retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy in 2011. Kelly announced his run for the senate seat in February 2019 and centered his campaign on science and the perspective he can bring as an engineer who’s seen Earth from orbit, he told the Verge’s Loren Grush in 2019. Now, he’s the fourth astronaut elected to Congress.
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