{"id":193877,"date":"2024-08-01T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mark-kelly-could-halt-plans-to-crash-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:24:22","slug":"mark-kelly-could-halt-plans-to-crash-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mark-kelly-could-halt-plans-to-crash-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kelly Could Halt Plans To Crash The International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mark-kelly-could-halt-plans-to-crash-the-international-space-station3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Mark Kelly, the Space Shuttle pilot who played a pivotal role in assembling the International Space Station, is catapulted into the White House as Vice President, he could quickly help reverse the death sentence that NASA\u2019s current leaders have placed on the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Now a widely popular U.S. senator and potential running mate of Kamala Harris, Kelly spent the first decade of the new millennium ferrying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Corporate_news\/Shuttle_mission_carries_first_European_to_Space_Station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Corporate_news\/Shuttle_mission_carries_first_European_to_Space_Station\" aria-label=\"European\">European<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/japanese-experiment-module-kibo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/japanese-experiment-module-kibo\/\" aria-label=\"Japanese\">Japanese<\/a> modules to the Station \u2014 and guiding gigantic robotic builders to put the ISS together \u2014 all while the outpost was circling the planet at 17,000 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The space hero \u2014 recently inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/two-space-pioneers-inducted-into-astronaut-hall-of-fame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/two-space-pioneers-inducted-into-astronaut-hall-of-fame\/\" aria-label=\"pantheon of the greatest American astronauts\">pantheon of the greatest American astronauts<\/a> \u2014 is likely part of a contingent of ISS spacefarers who back saving the orbiting icon from NASA\u2019s death decree by boosting it into a higher orbit and transforming it into an eternal monument to human ingenuity, says Rick Tumlinson, a torchbearer in the \u201cSave Our Station,\u201d or SOS movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mark Kelly, the Space Shuttle pilot who played a pivotal role in assembling the International Space Station, is catapulted into the White House as Vice President, he could quickly help reverse the death sentence that NASA\u2019s current leaders have placed on the ISS. Now a widely popular U.S. senator and potential running mate of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}