Randy Bresnik
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134 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Jun
Randy Bresnik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so as a test pilot, I could not be more excited at the prospect of being part of it.
so since i've been a pilot i have not a routine but there are simple gestures that for me represent the beginning of the mission if you're a pilot the mission is flying an airplane for me the moment in which i separated the rest of the world from what was going to happen was locking the canopy
When I locked the canopy on my aircraft, this is 25 years ago now, but it would lock everything else outside.
And it was almost an immediate transformation for me.
It was the moment that I became one with my aircraft.
And now everything outside of the aircraft doesn't exist any longer.
It's me, the mission, the...
the guy on the other airplane and what we're going to do it it was a the physical click was almost a switch and you can replicate that in any environment you are you go out on a spacewalk locking the helmet for me was that moment you know the click of the helmet now everything is out is outside and
Everything that's outside of the spacesuit is not important.
It's for later.
I could have problems at work, I could have problems with my family, I could have...
anything going on, but it stays outside of the head and outside of the spacesuit, outside of the spacecraft, outside of the airplane.
And I'm sure that during the hundreds of hours that we will spend training together, we will find what is that switch that puts everything, leaves everything outside and makes me focus on what's happening in the moment.
I'm so happy that you said that.
For anybody who hasn't seen the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, there is one of the episodes.
It's about Apollo 9, one of my favorite episodes.
Because in that event, what was happening is that there was a crew that was going to perform testing of the lunar lander.
they were not going to land on the moon.
And then they told them, we're going to anticipate another mission and we're going to send Apollo 8 around the moon and back.
But because you were assigned first, we want to give it to you the opportunity to step into Apollo 8 instead of performing Apollo 9.
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