<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colonel Mike Mullane flew three Space Shuttle missions as a Mission Specialist and is a retired US Air Force weapon systems operator, flying 134 combat missions in Vietnam. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wrote the award-winning children&amp;#39;s book Liftoff and the outrageously amusing and often times tragic “Riding Rockets”. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is a speaker on leadership, teamwork, and safety. He uses his experiences to explain the &amp;quot;normalisation of deviance,&amp;quot; the tendency to take shortcuts and accept lower standards under pressure. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to Gareth’s interview with Mike, on the best and sadly some of the tragic elements of being a Space Shuttle astronaut.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Colonel Mike Mullane flew three Space Shuttle missions as a Mission Specialist and is a retired US Air Force weapon systems operator, flying 134 combat missions in Vietnam. He wrote the award-winning children&#39;s book Liftoff and the outrageously amusing and often times tragic “Riding Rockets”. He is a speaker on leadership, teamwork, and safety. He uses his experiences to explain the &quot;normalisation of deviance,&quot; the tendency to take shortcuts and accept lower standards under pressure. Listen to Gareth’s interview with Mike, on the best and sadly some of the tragic elements of being a Space Shuttle astronaut.

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Ep.223 - Riding Rockets, with astronaut Mike Mullane

Ep.223 - Riding Rockets, with astronaut Mike Mullane

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