An extremely remarkable lady

Mark Kelly probably begun to get frustrated as i shot questions at him while we were stuck in the backseat of a vehicle. I've learned the hard way that not everyone wants to talk about work all the time. He was a good sport though, and even agreed to speak with me again. How do you stop asking questions to an astronaut? A famous one at that. Interesting trivia: Mark not only has an identical brother, but his twin, Scott, is also an astronaut.

The good news in light of my tormenting fanboy questions is that Mr. Kelly is a watch guy. Perhaps not in how many of us are (with your intimate knowing of many brands and models), but he is the type of guy many of the watches we like are reported to be designed for. For Mark, watches are tools. Essential tools, but also ones that can look good while doing their job.

Mark Kelly has a few points of fame. Within the last few years he has been around what is this great because of his wife, Congresswoman Representative Gabby Giffords. An extremely remarkable lady, Giffords bravely retrieved from a typically fatal gunshot twisted she was the victim of in 2011. Kelly and his family lived with a long difficult period while she retrieved, and still recovers today. That event even hit close to home for me. The shooting occurred at a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona where Giffords lives and represents. I used to frequent that exact supermarket while living in Tucson around my university years. When you speak with someone who had to go through that, you no doubt want to be sensitive as to the they had to go through. Something most people don't and will never understand. At the same time you find it almost inhumane not to show a acknowledgement for the gravity of the experience their family had to share.

Recently the space Shuttle service Try traveled around California before it stopped at its final resting place through Los angeles. It was the last of its kind, and marked a conclusion to the federal government run space shuttle service program. Kelly was the last guy to fly it in 2011 after the shuttle service flew for 19 years. His most enduring legacy will be that of an astronaut. One that helped end a period, but commence a new one. While Kelly is currently retired as an astronaut, he still serves as an mechanic and consults to private firms like SpaceX which are picking up where NASA left off.