'It's a great honor, having your peers recognize the things you did and consider them important enough to put you on stage...'
"I think we are still the only siblings that have flown into space — less you count the Bezos brothers," said Kelly. Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark became space tourists on theRoy Bridges and Senator Mark Kelly wave and pose with their plaques that will hang in the Astronaut Hall of Fame, part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
"I thought the time had passed when I would be considered [for this honor] because I retired from NASA in 2005 and I only had the one spaceflight because of the Challenger mishap and getting recalled to the Air Force," said Bridges.) due to his upbringing in rural Georgia, Bridges' first and only launch was on the eighth flight of the space shuttle, STS-51F, in July 1985.
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