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A Dance of Smiles
Credit: White House Photo by David Lienemann
Captain Mark Kelly hugs his wife Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after receiving the Legion of Merit from Vice President Joe Biden during Captain Kelly's retirement ceremony in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2011.
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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Credit: White House Photo by David Lienemann
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords listens as her husband, Captain Mark Kelly speaks at his retirement ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2011.
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Vice President Biden Honors Mark Kelly
Credit: White House Photo by David Lienemann
Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Captain Mark Kelly during his retirement ceremony in the Secretary of War Suite of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2011. Kelly was presented the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Flying Cross medals by the Vice President and Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, for his 25 years of service with the Navy and NASA.
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Navy Capt. Mark Kelly Retires
Credit: White House Photo by David Lienemann
Captain Mark Kelly speaks at his retirement ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2011.
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Vice President and Mark Kelly
Credit: White House Photo by David Lienemann
Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Captain Mark Kelly's retirement ceremony in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2011.
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Mark Kelly with Gabrielle Giffords
Credit: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' office
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (right) with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly.
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Tucson Memorial Service
Credit: White House/Pete Souza
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Mark Kelly (at far right), the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, listen to remarks by Daniel Hernandez, the intern who helped save the life of Rep. Giffords during the Tucson shootings. This memorial service took place at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 12, 2011.
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Gabrielle Giffords - First Photos Released
Credit: P.K. Weis, SouthwestPhotoBank.com
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords smiles in the first photos of her released since she was critically injured in a January shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz.
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Gabrielle Giffords
Credit: P.K. Weis, SouthwestPhotoBank.com
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was surrounded by her mother, one of her staff members and a close friend during this photoshoot at her hospital in Houston.
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Recovery Process
Credit: Mark Kelly/Facebook
Photos of loved ones and other inspiration adorn Congresswoman Giffords' hospital room.
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Mark Kelly Videochats with His Wife
Credit: Gabrielle Giffords
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords posted this picture of her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, video-chatting from space on her Twitter account. Kelly was commanding the space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station at the time in May 2011.
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Mark Kelly in U2 Concert Appearance
Credit: NASA
Astronaut Mark Kelly spells out a message ("It's a beautiful day") while floating on the International Space Station during a video appearance at a U2 concert in Seattle June 5.
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NASA's Kelly Astronaut Twins Reunited
Credit: NASA
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left), Expedition 26 commander, is reunited with his twin brother, Mark Kelly on March 17, 2011, following a flight back to Ellington Field, Houston from Kustanay, Kazakhstan. Scott Kelly landed in Kazakhstan on March 16 with his Russian crewmates in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft after 159 days in space.
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For Gabby
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly wears a blue wrist band that has a peace symbol, a heart and the word "Gabby" to show his love of his sister-in-law U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as he rests shortly after he and cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri landed in their Soyuz TMA-01M capsule in Kazakhstan on March 16, 2011.
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Gabrielle Giffords
Credit: Paragon Space Development Corporation
A prototype greenhouse sits next to U.S. Congress Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (left) and Jane Poynter, president and founder of Paragon Space Development Corporation (right). Paragon has teamed up with Odyssey Moon, a contender for the Google Lunar X Prize, to grow the first flower on the moon.
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Endeavour Crew Speaks With Tucson Students
Credit: NASA TV
Endeavour space shuttle commander Mark Kelly (left) and Mission Specialist Mike Fincke aboard space shuttle Endeavour talk to students at Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., on May 22, 2011.
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The Obamas Meet the STS-134 Astronauts
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama share a laugh with STS-134 space shuttle Endeavor commander Mark Kelly (with back to camera), right, and shuttle astronauts, from left, Andrew Feustel, European Space Agency’s Roberto Vittori, Michael Fincke, Gregory H. Johnson, and Greg Chamitoff, after their launch was scrubbed, Friday, April 29, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Rep. Giffords, Capt. Mark Kelly, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Credit: Nancy Pelosi (via Flickr)
Nancy Pelosi poses wiith Rep. Giffords at Captain Mark Kelly’s military retirement ceremony.
