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🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good afternoon, Michael Malice here. Let that be your welcome for the next hour. I am |
0:28.4 | positively giddy about this week's episode because we have with us a real live astronaut, |
0:35.9 | Clayton Anderson. He's also the author of Letters from Space, the ordinary spaceman from Boyhood |
0:42.4 | Dreams to Astronaut and A is for astronaut. I have so many questions as I'm sure everyone does. |
0:49.6 | Whenever I go to a party, given my career, podcaster, you know, Twitter, Jerk, author, I, |
0:57.2 | people have a lot of questions because it's an unusual lifestyle. How do you pay the rent? |
1:01.0 | You know, you know, do you, are you friends with other podcasters? I got nothing on you. |
1:05.8 | So I have a friend who is six seven and he always gets the same four questions. How tall are you? |
1:11.4 | How tall are your parents? Were you always tall? Do you play basketball? As an astronaut, |
1:16.0 | you must have a few questions that everyone always asks. What are those questions and what are the answers? |
1:22.0 | The, I guess it started the first one being how did you become an astronaut? |
1:26.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Because once people get to know me and they look at me and they see |
1:32.0 | my life, they go, wow, they picked you. So my story is somewhat different than many of the other |
1:42.1 | astronauts who've been selected in the past. First of all, I'm not military. I'm a civilian. |
1:47.8 | I don't have a PhD. I only have a master's degree. I was too smart to get a PhD. And I was a small |
1:57.6 | town kid from the Midwest in Ashland, Nebraska. I applied to be an astronaut 15 times. |
2:03.2 | I submitted an application 15 times once every single year for 15 years and I heard nothing |
2:08.3 | from these people until year 13. Wow. So, and in year 13, that was the year I decided to give it up. |
2:15.8 | I was going to stop trying anymore and my wife and I flew to Seattle, |
2:20.9 | Washington to visit some friends and to seek employment elsewhere. We came back from Seattle. |
2:27.6 | I went back to my job at NASA and in all honesty, that same week that we returned, |
2:32.4 | I got a phone call that said, hey, Clay, you still interested in being an astronaut because we want |
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