"Frequent travel may be required" is not all that strange considering this is for an astronaut...
It is a form of humor on the part of the HN submitter. Though for the life of me I can't recall what type. It's not irony. Gross understatement?
Job Opening: "Frequent travel may be required"
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#42I wonder if a computer science degree counts as education in a branch of mathematics (which qualifies), or in "technology" (which does not).
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#43I'm surprised that they will accept a graduation degree in lieu of 1,000+ hours of pilot-in-command time in a jet aircraft. I'm a private pilot of single-engine propeller airplanes and getting my degree in CS is certainly no substitute! I'm applying tonight.
They have 2 paths to qualify - piloting astronauts and non-piloting. So it's not a substitute, per se.
That's an interesting throwback to the days when all astronauts were test pilots, but it's kind of stupid nowadays, for reasons Robert Zubrin points out in his Mars Direct plan. It's simply easier to train a qualified engineer or scientist to be a pilot than it is to train a qualified pilot to be an engineer or scientist--and on any mission that's at all interesting, it's silly to waste space on an astronaut who isn't an engineer or a scientist.
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#44I wonder if a computer science degree counts as education in a branch of mathematics (which qualifies), or in "technology" (which does not).
"Basic Education Requirement: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science."
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#45I wonder if a computer science degree counts as education in a branch of mathematics (which qualifies), or in "technology" (which does not).
"Basic Education Requirement: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science , or other field of science."
"The following degree fields are not considered qualifying:
--Degrees in Technology (Engineering Technology, Aviation Technology, Medical Technology, etc.) "
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#46"Frequent travel may be required" is not all that strange considering this is for an astronaut...
It is a form of humor on the part of the HN submitter. Though for the life of me I can't recall what type. It's not irony. Gross understatement?
Not even that, since most astronauts don't really travel to space frequently. It would have to be "involves somewhat longish trips" to be a proper understatement.
Since the ad is for astronaut candidates, the frequent travel is presumably of the boring, Earth-bound type.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a form of humor on the part of the HN submitter. Though for the life of me I can't recall what type. It's not irony. Gross understatement?
Not even that, since most astronauts don't really travel to space frequently . It would have to be "involves somewhat longish trips" to be a proper understatement. Since the ad is for astronaut candidates , the frequent travel is presumably of the boring, Earth-bound type.
Wry humor becomes much less funny when you insist on analyzing it and adhering to the so-called "facts"...
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not even that, since most astronauts don't really travel to space frequently . It would have to be "involves somewhat longish trips" to be a proper understatement. Since the ad is for astronaut candidates , the frequent travel is presumably of the boring, Earth-bound type.
Wry humor becomes much less funny when you insist on analyzing it and adhering to the so-called "facts"...
You're right, of course. But I only jumped in after you started it. :-)
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It kind of pisses me off that the US is having to buy seats on Soyuz launches. Of course I grew up reading Tom Corbett and watched the first moon landing on a 12 inch black and white TV...
>It kind of pisses me off that the US is having to buy seats on Soyuz launches. it is normal for any high tech endeavor to outsource mundane/janitorial work. Russia and US mastered this non-reuseable type of space flight decades ago. It would not make any sense for NASA to go back and implement the same system now. What would be great is if NASA used the time and money to implement a more advanced and efficient syste…
In my view there is nothing mundane about lifting people safely to orbit.
For lifting cargo you might have a good point.
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#50>>SALARY RANGE: $64,724.00 to $141,715.00 / Per Year Space Shuttle Endeavour cost about $1.7 billion, each Space Shuttle flight cost $450 million, $480.1 million has been awarded through the COTS program - and they would pay an astronaut $65k/year. I'm guessing they feel that the rare opportunity to be in space is enough pay for you. ;) I'd still do it if I qualified for it. PS: I wish people would stop with the lazy…
I don't think there's ever been an astronaut who did it for the paycheck. All of them would probably pay for the opportunity.