Need more office space? How about outer space?
NASA opened its astronaut-application website Monday. It’s accepting applications through Feb. 18.
Contenders need to be U.S. citizens with a bachelor’s degree in science, math or engineering. Expect intense competition: More than 6,000 applied for NASA’s last astronaut class in 2013, with only eight picked. It’s an elite club, numbering only in the 300s since the beginning.
Future astronauts will have four spacecraft at their disposal: the International Space Station, two commercial crew capsules to get there, and NASA’s Orion spacecraft for eventual Mars trips. Pay is between $66,000 and $145,000 a year, and you’ll have to move to Houston.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, says this next group will help “blaze the trail” to Mars.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
i see this joke NASA is once again at it looking for a few more YES MEN who will LIE and may enjoy that star-studded ticker-tape parade jazz too, when the next big phony achievement is zero accomplished. Like all them phony moon landings thus far, here comes a phony Mars landing next to put NASA (mission # 1 = make muslims feel good about themselves?) Right back on top for keeps…
Lastly, a funny thing happened on our way to the moon, we discover that our creator will not allow our evil seed to infest other worlds….
Thus, deep space is no place for we mere humans, so like in the 60s NASA will do a Capricorn 1 scenario at that appointed time and once again the sheeple will worship the event!
I remember when they went to the moon. I think some young people don’t think it happened.