GREENWICH, CT \u2014 Greenwich Library will welcome Captain Scott Kelly, former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain, for a keynote address on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Berkley Theater as part of the Lynne and Richard Pasculano Signature Series. <\/p>\n
Registration is required and opens Wednesday, Oct. 29, at greenwichlibrary.org.<\/p>\n
Kelly, selected as an astronaut in 1996, is a veteran of four spaceflights. He piloted Space Shuttle Discovery to the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999 and commanded Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station in 2007. His long-duration flight experience includes two flights on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and two commands aboard the International Space Station: a 159-day mission in 2010\u20132011 and a record-setting 340-day mission in 2015.<\/p>\n
During the yearlong “Year in Space” mission, Kelly conducted three spacewalks before returning in March 2016. His mission was chronicled in a TIME documentary series and an Emmy Award-winning PBS special. <\/p>\n
Kelly has logged more than 200 million miles in space – more than twice the distance to the sun – and orbited the earth more than 8,300 times. Before NASA, he flew the F-14 Tomcat as a fighter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.<\/p>\n
Kelly\u2019s identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also a former NASA astronaut and is the senior U.S. senator from Arizona.<\/p>\n
The Lynne and Richard Pasculano Signature Series features nationally recognized speakers for programs that engage the Greenwich community and region. <\/p>\n
Upcoming series events include author and historian Walter Isaacson on Thursday, Feb. 19, and wildlife biologist and filmmaker Ronan Donovan on Thursday, April 23.<\/p>\n
For more information about library events, visit greenwichlibrary.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENWICH, CT \u2014 Greenwich Library will welcome Captain Scott Kelly, former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-243340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}