Senator Kelly’s ‘moonshot’: revitalising US-flag fleet and American shipbuilding

Arizona Senator lays out the challenges of rebuilding the US-flag fleet and American shipbuilding industrial base, and why action is critical to the United States’ economic and national security.

Throughout his career as a merchant mariner, naval aviator and a Space Shuttle commander, US Senator Mark Kelly has been an optimist.

“I’m the guy who had to climb into the spaceship four times built by the lowest bidder. You have got to be an optimist,” the senator joked.

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