NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Wanted To Be A Diver, Changed Mind After Seeing 'Cool Tom Cruise' In Top Gun

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After the space shuttles retired more than a decade ago, NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX for orbital taxi service.
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Being a pilot wasn’t actually my first choice as a career in the Navy. I actually wanted to be a diver. But Top Gun came out and I saw how cool Tom Cruise was, and I wanted to be a jet pilot, so I went to flight school,
she said during the podcast, in reply to a query on what made her interested in flying, as a pilot or an astronaut
I wanted to be a jet pilot, but I came a helicopter pilot and I loved it from the first time I started,
Williams added
Sunita Williams,
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