“This group will launch to space from USA soil on American-made spacecraft and blaze the trail on our journey to the Red Planet”, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, said in a statement. The lucky future astronauts could have the chance to fly either on one of the two spacecraft owned by NASA – the International Space station or Orion, the deep-space exploration vehicle or on one of the two commercial crew spacecraft, which are now being developed by Boeing and SpaceX.
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Specifically, NASA demands USA citizenship, a minimum undergraduate degree in engineering, science or mathematics, at least three years of related professional experience (or 1,000 hours as pilot-in-command of a jet aircraft) and correctable 20/20 vision (glasses are okay).
“NASA has taken the next step in the evolution of our nation’s human spaceflight program – and our USA astronauts will be at the forefront of these new and challenging space flight missions”, director of flight operations Brian Kelly said. Astronauts also will lift off again from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard the Orion spacecraft, launched on the agency’s Space Launch System rocket, to missions in lunar orbit.
The interested candidates can submit their applications starting from now and the last date of accepting applications is February 28, 2016. After graduating from Ithaca College with a degree in Feature Writing, she snagged a job at PCMag.com where she had the opportunity to review all the latest consumer gadgets. Astronauts selected could earn as much as $ 144,566 a year if they willing to move to Houston.
Prospective astronauts need to be USA citizens and pass an intense physical.
“It takes an extraordinary person”, Newman said. And this week, the agency opened its application process for the next class of space travelers.
It’s a good business practice to let candidates know this up front – especially when the company doing the hiring is NASA and the openings are for astronauts.
Before applying you should consider what it means to live in space.
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NASA also revealed that the agency plans to add a seventh crew member to each station mission so that more research can be done in space. Apply to become an astronaut.
