Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly has received re-election to the USA Senate, a number of media shops are projecting.
Mark Kelly , an incumbent Democratic senator from Arizona, defeated his Republican opponent Blake Masters, in response to The Associated Press (opens in new tab) , NBC News (opens in new tab) and different organizations.
As of Friday evening (Nov. 11), Kelly was forward by greater than 120,000 votes with an estimated 394,000 votes left to rely,, in response to NBC Information, which sees no path to victory for Masters at this level.
Kelly celebrated the information by way of Twitter, posting a thank-you (opens in new tab) to the residents of Arizona.
Associated: Biography of former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly
Kelly was first elected to the Senate in 2020 , changing into simply the fourth former astronaut ever to win a seat in Congress. In that race, Kelly defeated Republican Martha McSally, whom Arizona’s governor had appointed after longtime senator John McCain died in 2018.
Kelly joined NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1996, in the identical class as his twin brother, Scott. Mark Kelly spent a total of 54 days off Earth throughout 4 space shuttle missions, the final of which flew in 2011.
He retired from NASA that very same 12 months however performed a key position in Scott’s epic 11-month mission aboard the International Space Station , which ran from late March 2015 to early March 2016. Scientists collected medical and physiological knowledge from both twins — one in space and one on the bottom — all through the mission, in an try and quantify the impacts of long-duration spaceflight on the human physique.
Scott Kelly retired from NASA in April 2016, shortly after the mission wrapped up.
Mark Kelly is married to former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords , who survived an assassination try throughout an occasion with constituents in January 2011. Each Kelly and Giffords are strong advocates for gun control .
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