John —

Mark Kelly has successfully landed on an aircraft carrier 375 times.

That's not easy.

First off, the landing area of an aircraft carrier is only a few hundred feet in length. That’s about 1/40th the length of a runway at a military airbase. But what makes this even more complicated is that your runway is moving through the water. It moves to the right because of the angled deck, and bobs up and down like a cork, and rocks left and right in the ocean. It’s challenging during the day and often feels impossible at night. Naval aviators have to do this in all kinds of conditions... rain, snow, fog, and during combat when the ship is often blacked out so it can’t be found by the enemy.

He did this 375 times, and every time any naval aviator does this, he or she is risking their life for their country. And then he launched on a rocket ship and into space four times in a spacecraft that is more complicated and more difficult to operate than any other machine ever built by humans.

So, when Mark says he isn't intimidated by Donald Trump and the White House, Pete Hegseth at the Department of Defense, or Kash Patel at the FBI... you can take his word for it.

But that doesn’t mean we can underestimate them. They have the full weight of the executive branch behind them, and they're bearing down on Mark.

Hegseth directed the Secretary of the Navy to deliver him a report by Wednesday on what they will do to Mark — whether they will recall him to active duty and court-martial him.

Mark was successful at every one of those landings and space missions because he prepared for them, and because he had a huge team behind him. This is no different, so we are humbly asking you:

Please, make a donation to Mark so he knows we're ready for whatever Hegseth and Trump throw at him. It'll add up fast if tons of people do their part and chip in.

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Thank you, sincerely, for your help.

It means a lot to Mark.

Team Kelly

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Mark Kelly was a Captain in the U.S. Navy and astronaut. Use of his military rank, job titles and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Navy or Department of Defense and reference to NASA does not imply endorsement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.