This is an account of an extraordinary man who the government agency had rejected his application for its space explorer training program 14 times and he needed to sit tight for 15 years to accomplish his dreams.
Clayton Anderson is one of those individuals whose dogged perseverance is inspiring. He didn't feel depressesd in the wake of getting yet another rejection letter from NASA. He said he really felt "hope" at whatever point he got a rejection letter. While pursuing his destiny he built up an ideal case of a never-give-up state of mind.
After first observing Apollo 8 on its outing around the Moon and back, trailed by Neil Armstrong venturing onto the lunar surface for the first time in mankind's history, Clayton Anderson wished nothing else except for to fly out of the Earth's climate and do what these extraordinary men did. Regardless of
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Anderson said when he was nine years of age, in 1968, his mom and dad placed him and his siblings before a TV in Ashland, Nebraska, around midnight on Christmas Eve," he reviewed in a meeting for Popular Mechanics in August 2015.
"We viewed the Apollo 8 space explorers go behind the Moon for the first run through in mankind's history. That was my most punctual memory. My thinking was, 'This is cool. I need to do that,' " clarified Anderson when inquired as to whether there was something specifically that started an enthusiasm for turning into a space traveler, enough to enable him to endure during that time of innumerable rejections.
In spite of the fact that he graduated in physics at Hastings college and got his masters in aerospace engineering at the Iowa State University, Anderson was just a cadet at NASA when he initially applied to end up as an