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LIFE IN SPACE As Gi ord’s condition from the gunshot wound improved, Kelly
considered resuming his career as an astronaut. “A space shuttle is
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 rather risky,” he said. “People underestimate the risk. A woman on

Halfway to Tucson aboard a friend’s private plane, Kelly was a plane asked me – Isn’t driving a car on a highway more dangerous
watching the day unfold on television. ree cable news networks than ying in a space shuttle? No. Flying a space shuttle is almost as
announced that Gi ords was dead. For 30 minutes he continued dangerous as storming the beach at Normandy.”
to see a photo of his wife on the screen, with 1970-2011 posted Kelly described what it was like piloting the space shuttle
across the bottom. en the networks announced their error, and Endeavour on his nal ight in May 2011. When the shuttle is fully COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE.
that Gi ords was alive and in surgery. loaded with fuel, it’s like a bomb on a hill, Kelly said. “Nobody wants
“My wife Gabby was not going to be taken out by cable news,” to be around it,” he said. “ e closest people are ve miles away.” Pueblo continually provides energy efficient hvac & controls
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realized she was still having difficulty speaking. “That was Kelly said, “I started thinking – this is really a dumb thing to do.”
frustrating for her,” Kelly said. “Her name is Gabby. I am not a very At 3 seconds to li o , the three main engines start, but the ship
patient person, but I realized I would have to be patient for the rest goes nowhere. It’s bolted down.
of my life. I y a rocket ship for a job. Do I have patience for this?” “At zero, the bolts explode and it’s like the hand of God grabs
Kelly told of a meeting he and his wife had several years before you,” Kelly said. “On TV it looks like it’s going up smoothly, but
the Tucson shooting with Stephen Hawking, the noted English imagine that you’re on a runaway train going 1,000 miles an hour.
physicist who su ers from a debilitating ailment, commonly known ere’s a lot of vibration. You accelerate from zero to 17,500 miles
as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kelly said he greeted Hawking, who is an hour in eight and a half minutes. A little later you’re going 25
unable to speak, but got no response. times the speed of sound.”
“Gabby watched me screw this up,” Kelly said. “She moved me e view from space is that Earth is a big round mostly blue ball,
out of the way, got down on her knees in front of him, and said, ‘Dr. oating in space, no strings attached, Kelly said.
Hawking, it’s so nice to see you. How are you doing?’” She waited for “You have a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes,” he said. “ e rst
ve minutes. Hawking, using a speech synthesizer, nally replied, time I saw this – we literally live on an island in our solar system.
“ ank you so much. I am ne. How are you?” at’s when Kelly Make no mistake, we really have no place else to go. We really need
learned a lesson in patience. to focus on taking care of this planet. is is the only one we have.”

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