Posted on 11/05/2015 8:24:14 AM PST by rktman
Calling all aspiring astronauts: NASA announced today (Nov. 4) that it will be accepting applications starting in December for its next round of astronaut training.
Currently, there are 47 active members in NASA's astronaut corp., with the last group of new astronauts selected in 2013. Applications for the new class will be accepted from mid-December through mid-February, and those selected to begin astronaut training will be announced in mid-2017.
"With more human spacecraft in development in the United States today than at any other time in history, future astronauts will launch once again from the Space Coast of Florida on American-made commercial spacecraft and carry out deep-space exploration missions that will advance a future human mission to Mars," said NASA in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Only gays, and trannies need apply.
Recuiting new astronauts...? for what?...To change chandalier light bulbs in the White House?
For hitching a ride on a Russian spacecraft?
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?
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. :>}
Maybe, this is one of the “really cool things” that Jeb was talking about?
THAT! Was just f*@&ing awesome. Well done.
LOL
Muslims get in first, and the space station always points toward Mecca?
“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
I’m ready if they don’t mind using a lot more propellant than customary.
Space travel not required.
Whatever happened to NASSA?
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.
Last recorded conversation on-board Columbia: “Awww. . .go-on, the woman drive it”
KA-BOOM
(Ducking. . .)
That is not as bad as the one I heard about the Challenger.
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