Editor’s note: From the October 2005 issue of Washingtonian magazine – interviews with local luminaries. Senator Mikulski’s profile includes her admission:

“I’d be a Trekkie in two hot seconds,” she says. But she admits a more realistic job would be an astronomer. “While I would love to go up to the distant planets and find new galaxies,” she says. “I wouldnt want to be an astronaut. I don’t quite see myself in the costume.”

Image: Sen. Mikulski using her secret transporter. This should explain why people often think she is in two places at once. Click on image to enlarge.

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