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Got the Right Stuff? NASA Is Recruiting New Astronauts
space.com ^ | 11/5/2015 | Calla Cofield

Posted on 11/05/2015 8:24:14 AM PST by rktman

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To: Sacajaweau
Send her to Mars


21 posted on 11/05/2015 8:53:38 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: rktman

Only gays, and trannies need apply.


22 posted on 11/05/2015 8:55:31 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: rktman

Recuiting new astronauts...? for what?...To change chandalier light bulbs in the White House?


23 posted on 11/05/2015 9:05:57 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: rktman

For hitching a ride on a Russian spacecraft?


24 posted on 11/05/2015 9:09:13 AM PST by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: rktman

They should draft dwarfs and downsize everything. 1/3 the food ,fuel ,oxygen and most everything else. They are intelligent and with excellent dexterity. Whats the downside?


25 posted on 11/05/2015 9:12:49 AM PST by rsobin
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WARNING! WARNING! I don’t believe we’re allowed to say dwarfs or midgets any longer. Little people is the “acceptable” term now. Kinds changes things up for “Snow White and the Seven ‘Little People’” doesn’t it. No more midget tossing. :>}


26 posted on 11/05/2015 9:22:19 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Maybe, this is one of the “really cool things” that Jeb was talking about?


27 posted on 11/05/2015 9:31:56 AM PST by HoosierWordsmith
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To: DannyTN

THAT! Was just f*@&ing awesome. Well done.

LOL


28 posted on 11/05/2015 9:35:26 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: rktman

Muslims get in first, and the space station always points toward Mecca?


29 posted on 11/05/2015 9:36:12 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: Hulka

“I guarantee the next flight crew WILL have a minority female, a muslime, a white female, a lesbian and homosexual, and the single token straight white male will be sitting in the back as some sort of undefined mission specialist while the diverse fly the platform. . .”

The last 2 shuttles that blew up had a black guy on them.

NASA = Negroes Ain’t Supposed to be Astronauts


30 posted on 11/05/2015 10:25:04 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (Treason is as treason does, demons is as demUNs does.)
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To: rktman

I’m ready if they don’t mind using a lot more propellant than customary.


31 posted on 11/05/2015 10:33:17 AM PST by GingisK
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To: rktman

Space travel not required.


32 posted on 11/05/2015 10:34:32 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: rktman

33 posted on 11/05/2015 10:34:51 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: rktman

Whatever happened to NASSA?

34 posted on 11/05/2015 10:38:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rktman
This brings back memories. Back in 1964 I received a letter from NASA (they must have sent out dozens if not hundreds) inviting me to apply to be a scientist-astronaut. The primary requirements were age less than 35, and a doctorate in some science. There were also other requirements, but these were the big ones.

I satisfied all the requirements. That wouldn't guarantee I'd be accepted, but at least I wouldn't have been rejected outright. I had been a "space cadet" since reading the Buck Rogers comic strip back in the 1940s, and being a science fiction fan ever since then. I was sorely tempted to apply.

Ultimately I didn't apply. I was satisfied with my Air Force career; I was married with several children, and didn't want to put my family through what families of astronauts went through; I really had other goals in life. So I dropped the letter in the wastebasket. I didn't even tell my wife then, or my children until many years later.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened had I applied. My life certainly would have been different. I'm not sure it would have been better, though.

35 posted on 11/05/2015 2:03:54 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: MikeSteelBe

Last recorded conversation on-board Columbia: “Awww. . .go-on, the woman drive it”

KA-BOOM

(Ducking. . .)


36 posted on 11/06/2015 5:55:35 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

That is not as bad as the one I heard about the Challenger.


37 posted on 11/12/2015 8:31:26 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (Treason is as treason does, demons is as demUNs does.)
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