Randy Bresnik

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134 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Jun

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NASA's Curious Universe · Meet the Artemis III Crew · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

So I went back to Italy at the end of the year.

I finished high school and I applied for the Italian Air Force, which is a selection process.

I went in as a pilot.

I started flying.

And there is a second moment where Lieutenant Colonel Maurizio Kelly, an Italian astronaut, came to talk to us about his spaceflight on STS-100.

And that was the moment when I thought, that's who I want to be.

I was looking at the stage at this super humble pilot and astronaut.

And I thought, there is a path.

And I just want to know what that is.

And I learned that you had to be a fighter pilot, a test pilot.

So I put every effort I could into becoming a fighter pilot.

And after seven years as a fighter pilot, I was selected to become a test pilot.

I went to a test pilot school.

And...

there was a call for astronauts from the European Space Agency.

At the time, I was the youngest astronaut, the youngest test pilot in my squadron.

And so I thought,

that that would be fantastic to apply but probably not not my chance because all these other colleagues are more experienced they're older they're more experienced they have more capabilities so i probably should wait for the next time

And that was my idea, that I was going to have another chance when I had more capabilities and more experience.

Except that one morning, my squadron commander asked me if I had applied for the selection, because he knew that I wanted to be an astronaut, that I was dreaming about that.

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