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🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the aggressive life. |
0:08.7 | You know, we're about 120 episodes into this thing. |
0:12.9 | And we've really connected with some really, really cool and aggressive people, movie stars, world-renowned scientists, rodeo cowboys, motorcycle gurus, people who eat |
0:24.8 | breakfast for dinner, all kind of crazy people. And today we've reached a new pinnacle. |
0:30.9 | Can you think of anything more aggressive than strapping yourself to a rocket and blasting into |
0:37.3 | outer space? The answer is, no, no, you can't. |
0:41.9 | No, there's nothing more aggressive, outlandish, or literally out of the world than that. |
0:49.6 | Even with space travel becoming more commercialized, it remains our last great unexplored frontier. |
0:56.2 | Mike Mulane dared to put himself towards the stars and blast off. Mike is an engineer. He's a |
1:04.9 | retired United States Air Force officer and one of the original NASA space shuttle astronauts. |
1:11.7 | Mike was part of three space shuttle missions, one aboard Discovery, two aboard Atlantis, |
1:17.7 | logging 356 total hours in space. |
1:22.1 | Oh, and before that, he flew 134 combat missions during the Vietnam War, earned multiple commendations, including six |
1:29.8 | air medals and the distinguished flying cross-up. I can go on and on and on it. Every once in |
1:34.4 | while you read somebody's bio, you just feel like a freaking loser. That's what I feel right now. On top of |
1:39.3 | that, he's a mountain climber. He, you know, he does crazy, crazy thing. Enough of his bio. He's an amazing man. |
1:46.7 | He is aggressive. I am thankful to interview today. My first astronaut in my entire life, |
1:54.6 | Mike Mulane, welcome the aggressive of life. Thank you for that lead in. Thank you, Brian. |
2:00.8 | I don't know where to go here because there's so many different things I want to talk about. |
2:03.6 | You've been in space three times. |
2:06.0 | Can you take us back like to the first time? |
2:08.4 | Were you thinking yourself, oh, this is going to be crazy? |
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