“I Can’t Just Sit Back and Watch Anymore” | Astronaut Terry Virts on Courage, Ethics, & Politics

You have to do the right thing when it's time to do the right thing. If you don't, you might not have that opportunity again. After you've succeeded in life, how do

you give back? What do you do with your energy, your ambition, your time? What do you direct your career at? And this

is exactly what Terry Vertz has done and is doing first as a fighter pilot, then

as an astronaut, and now he's running for Senate here in Texas. As a fighter pilot, you quite literally need a killer

instinct. And as it currently stands, that's the opposite of what you want in an astronaut. Senica was doing NASA risk