Mark Kelly

Being an astronaut is a highly technical job where you're learning how to operate one of the most complex systems ever built by humans, right?

The space shuttle, also the space station, very, very complex.

and you're working together generally in a small team.

You know, as the commander of the mission, you're also especially working a lot with mission control and the engineering team.

With being a senator, it's almost like everything is part of your job, like every issue that our country faces.

every problem, every way that citizens interact with their government and everything we do as a government is part of the purview of being in the Senate.

So in a lot of ways, it's very, very different.

You also, you know, you got to work to find consensus.

I served 25 years in the military, you know, very orderly.

There's a person in charge.

Now, when I was generally in charge of things, I always want people to like push back on me and, you know, question, you know, the approach.

But, you know, being in the Senate is a, the way I take on this job, it's like a 24-7 job.

Don't get a lot of time off.

because these issues that our country is currently facing especially are so significant.

We have really significant challenges.

I think we can solve these challenges, but it is a all hands on deck moment.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

I'll walk you through it.

So myself and, uh, four other or five other, uh, you know, one Senator of some house members.