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

And I told him, I don't think that's my chance, I don't think this is the right time, I'm too young, I'm too inexperienced.

And he told me, well...

If you don't apply, you have 100% chance of not being selected.

Exactly, yeah.

And at least you'll have the experience.

You'll see what it's about.

So I felt authorized to do it.

And so that night, I brought my letter of intention.

I applied for the selection.

And a year later, I was being called to Paris to be introduced as a young astronaut.

Honestly, I'm looking forward to whatever contribution I can give.

As a test pilot, as an experienced astronaut with a year of space time on the International Space Station, six spacewalks, that's one part of it.

The other part is that I'm really looking forward to learn.

and improve my capabilities, improve my experience and just get better at what I do and hopefully keep giving my contribution to this incredible program.

I'm sorry, I was salivating while you were talking.

The fascination that I have for test flying comes from being able to go into an environment where we have an idea of what's going to happen, but then you have to be part of making it happen.

And specifically for a mission like this one, it really is

creating a stepping stone for the future.

And it is such an honor to be able to make it better for the next guy, for the next mission, to be able to contribute to a program so vast, but being at the early stages and doing something for the first time.

I would say that is the true nature of test flying.

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