{"id":90921,"date":"2026-04-14T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-kelly-the-last-thing-i-would-want-in-a-space-shuttle-crew-would-be-7-white-u-s-navy-pilots\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:42:27","slug":"sen-kelly-the-last-thing-i-would-want-in-a-space-shuttle-crew-would-be-7-white-u-s-navy-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-kelly-the-last-thing-i-would-want-in-a-space-shuttle-crew-would-be-7-white-u-s-navy-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Kelly: The Last Thing I Would Want In A Space Shuttle Crew Would Be 7 White U.S. Navy Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) talked about military leadership at Rev. Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network summit.  &#8220;When you&#8217;re the commander you get some say in who your other crew members are going to be. So the last thing I would want in a space shuttle crew would be seven white guy U.S. Navy test pilots like me. It would be a disaster,&#8221; Kelly said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/13\/sen_kelly_the_last_thing_i_would_want_in_a_space_shuttle_crew_would_be_7_white_us_navy_pilots.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) talked about military leadership at Rev. Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network summit. &#8220;When you&#8217;re the commander you get some say in who your other crew members are going to be. So the last thing I would want in a space shuttle crew would be seven white guy U.S. Navy test pilots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5800,3375,339,4647,942,12844,11280,1480,4605,542,952,1297,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}