Recording-breaking 18,300 Americans apply to be NASA astronauts
- 8 years ago
HOUSTON — Over the past two months, tens of thousands of Americans who hope to help blaze a trail to Mars and beyond submitted applications for NASA's 2017 astronaut class.
Between mid-December and mid-February, a record-breaking 18,300 applicants applied for eight to 14 spots in NASA's astronaut candidate program this year. NASA received almost three times the number of applicants the space agency received during its last round of hiring in 2012, shattering the previous record of 8,000 applicants in 1978.
NASA's Astronaut Selection Board will review all of the applications and narrow them down before the top applicants are interviewed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, reported Space.com. NASA will select final candidates based on their work experiences, teamwork and communication abilities, as well as particular personality traits.
According NASA's press release, accepted candidates will go through a two-year program where they'll learn spacecraft systems, teamwork, the Russian language and vital skills — like spacewalking.
Once they graduate, astronauts will be assigned to any of the four different spacecraft: the International Space Station, NASA's Orion aircraft, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner or the SpaceX Crew Dragon.
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Between mid-December and mid-February, a record-breaking 18,300 applicants applied for eight to 14 spots in NASA's astronaut candidate program this year. NASA received almost three times the number of applicants the space agency received during its last round of hiring in 2012, shattering the previous record of 8,000 applicants in 1978.
NASA's Astronaut Selection Board will review all of the applications and narrow them down before the top applicants are interviewed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, reported Space.com. NASA will select final candidates based on their work experiences, teamwork and communication abilities, as well as particular personality traits.
According NASA's press release, accepted candidates will go through a two-year program where they'll learn spacecraft systems, teamwork, the Russian language and vital skills — like spacewalking.
Once they graduate, astronauts will be assigned to any of the four different spacecraft: the International Space Station, NASA's Orion aircraft, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner or the SpaceX Crew Dragon.
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