Retired astronaut enters race for US senate seat in Arizona

Retired astronaut enters race for US senate seat in Arizona
Image Credit: Twitter (@ShuttleCDRKelly)
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Retired U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly, whose wife former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was wounded in a 2011 mass shooting, plans to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, he said in a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday. Giffords stepped down from Congress after sustaining a serious head injury in the attack but has emerged as one of the leading voices of the U.S. gun-control movement.

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