Some of them are<\/a>:<\/p>\nTwo NASA Group Achievement Awards: Graduated with Honors (Top 10%), The Basic School,
\nMarine Officer Training
\nCommodore\u2019s List with Distinction
\nNavy Flight Training
\nMeritorious Service Medal
\nAir Medal (7th Award)
\nNavy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal<\/p>\n
Being in the Marine Corps has helped him train to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, you know truly Marine Corps military training has a lot of good foundational preparation for this kind of job, working in austere locations, working in small teams that are integrated into larger teams and just building that framework, that architecture, that knowledge, that has lended itself nicely for training in the NASA environment, training for Crew 13, training for working as an expedition on a space station has been very similar in a lot of ways. We worked together, we work together to solve complex problems truly,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n
He said that Crew-13 Cmdr. Jessica Watkins gave him sound advice since she is the only member of the mission who has been to space before.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, Jessica gives great advice, so she’s been up there, she kind of knows the ropes. She’s been really great in tailoring our training appropriately for what we’re going to do,\u201d Delaney said. \u201cSo, she gives great advice on how to live and operate in space and we’re using that right now in the training environment to enhance some of those training flows.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pilot for the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station shared what his thoughts will be like for being at low-Earth orbit for about six months and how he is looking forward to seeing our home planet in a new way.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 It probably is not going to be a surprise, but one of the biggest things I’m looking forward to is the space walk environment. So, I think it’s exciting to go up and work on a spaceship and work in a spaceship, but when it comes to getting outside and working on the outside of a spaceship, that’s kind of dynamic and exciting for me,\u201d Delaney said. \u201cSo, taking a look at Earth from outside the space station is going to be just a momentous event for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
While it will be his first time in space, due to his military career, he has been away from his family. But it is not every day that one goes to space for a job.<\/p>\n
Delaney shared what that conversation with his family was like.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it wasn’t maybe an easier conversation than you might expect, having done some military deployments; we’re used to being gone for longer, separated for long periods of time. The unique aspect actually with space flight is we’ll probably have more communication on a daily basis there than I ever did for different deployments,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they take these things very well. They’re kind of used to this type of operational environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Delaney and his wife recently became grandparents, as they welcomed two granddaughters into the world a few months ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I got two daughters that are around 30 years old and we just added, extended our family with two granddaughters a few months ago, so, exciting,\u201d the new grandfather said.<\/p>\n
Crew-13 is the 13th crew rotation mission as part of SpaceX\u2019s human space transportation system with NASA.<\/p>\n
Including the 2020 Demo-2 flight test, SpaceX has sent up astronauts to the International Space Station 14 times, which is all part of the U.S. space agency\u2019s Commercial Crew Program<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt allows NASA to partner with private space companies to transfer astronauts to and from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n
Delaney is joined on the Crew-13 mission by Watkins, and mission specialists Canadian Space Agency\u2019s astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.<\/p>\n
The Crew-13 launch is set for no earlier than mid-September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION \u2014 For those living in Florida, it has become common to hear about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12109,54160,12111,1011,26539,274,315,1190,2200,2204,26538,115,139,141,140,554,1769,135,1576,278,2032,2261],"class_list":["post-324212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-anthony-leone","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-space","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brevard-county","tag-human-interest","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-instagram-n13","tag-new-space-race","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tampa","tag-technology","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-volusia-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}