The former astronaut, who is black, calls police personnel

Former astronaut Leland Martin has helped build the International Space Station by flying on two shuttle missions.

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NASA astronaut Leland Melvin

Nevertheless, there has never been such a fear for its oxygen supply in the vacuum of space pulled by the cop on Earth.

“I was in a car with my girlfriend, and a police officer jumped on us,” said Melvin, who is black, speaking at a panel celebrating black life in the space industry. “He got her out of the car and said I was raping her because she wanted me to go to jail.”

He was still in high school, on a scholarship to attend a college college and plans to become a major in chemistry. Melvin, who is black, had a fear for his life.

“I’ve been on this rocket with millions of pounds of thrust, and not once was I afraid to go into space,” says Melvin, now 56, according to CNN. “That’s when I was stopped by police officers who I didn’t even know … I was starting to sweat and hold the steering wheel really tight.”

He and fellow panel members were speaking at the 2020 Virtual Human to Mars Summit, sponsored by the nonprofit organization Explore Mars, which advocates a personal exploration of the Red Planet.

Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA Deputy Manager of Commercial Moon Payload Services, and Daniel Wood, Director of Space Enabled Research Group at MIT, rounded out the panel, saying: “

The girlfriend, as it turned out, was not buying what he was selling cops. Refusing to lie about what she does, the cops said she loved Melvin, and was adamant even when she threatened herself, he told science advocate Bill Nye in a June interview with Space.com.

One of the most sought after effects in our history at the moment is an overview effect, “when you see the abundance of our blue marble from space and each other, the cognitive shift astronauts feel,” Melvin told Forbes last month, referring to the coined word . By author Frank White.

However, the deepest realization for him was far less down-to-earth than he expected.

“On my first space shuttle mission, I thought the technical assignment of setting up a multibillion-dollar Columbus Laboratory would be my ‘yes’ moment, but the task we were fighting was designed to be compared to breaking bread. Forbes, Numerous Refers to nationality. “We all knew we would be destroyed if we didn’t work together in space.”

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