Job Opening: "Frequent travel may be required"
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#2"Since all crewmembers will be expected to fly aboard the Soyuz vehicle and perform Extravehicular Activities (space walks), applicants must meet the anthropometric requirements for both the Soyuz vehicle and the extravehicular activity mobility unit (space suit). Applicants brought in for interview will be evaluated to ensure they meet the anthropometric requirements."
...or you will be charged for two seats.
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#3It's incredible how relatively sparse the application itself is. No essays, no short answers, no letters of recommendation. No prose of any kind. Simply a resume, references, an academic transcript, and a small list of "additional skills". The astronaut website talks repeatedly about focusing on candidates with high levels of academic achievement, and I guess they aren't kidding. With this application, for better or worse, that's about all they have to go on in this screening round.
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#4I'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.
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#5"Frequent travel may be required" is not all that strange considering this is for an astronaut...
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#6"Since all crewmembers will be expected to fly aboard the Soyuz vehicle and perform Extravehicular Activities (space walks), applicants must meet the anthropometric requirements for both the Soyuz vehicle and the extravehicular activity mobility unit (space suit). Applicants brought in for interview will be evaluated to ensure they meet the anthropometric requirements." ...or you will be charged for two seats.
At $50 million a seat, that starts to add up.
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#7I'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.
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#8I'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.
I believe it qualifies you for a different job; NASA traditionally splits people into the roles that require a pilot background (Pilot, Mission Commander, etc.), and those that require scientific credentials (Mission Specialist).
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#9"Astronaut Candidates will be required to pass a swimming test during the first month of training."
Does the back float count?
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#10Does anybody know how competitive something like this is? Do they get thousands or tens of thousands of applicants? I want to set my expectations accordingly.