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I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces. It looks like there are a few astronauts that wer
by almost_usual 8mo ago
I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces.
It looks like there are a few astronauts that were SEALs, one returned December 9th from the ISS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim
- drewda 8mo agoIn the US, many astronauts start as Air Force pilots. And for the preternaturally calm and confident who don't have the perfect eyesight required to enter the Air Force, many of them apparently serve instead on nuclear submarines...
- decimalenough 8mo agoJonny Kim was indeed a SEAL, and a few more things as well, with a CV almost as impressive as Johnny Sins: > American NASA astronaut, physician, U.S. Navy officer, dual designated naval aviator and flight surgeon, and former Navy SEAL. Note that "physician" here means Harvard MD.
- throwaway2037 8mo agoThis guy is the Chuck Norris of NASA. His Wiki page is wild.
- themafia 8mo agoThe point of training someone to their breaking point is not to make them immune to breaking. It's to give them experience with a realistic battlefield situation and their own physiological responses during it so they stand a basic chance when it does occur.