NASA is launching an astronaut recruitment campaign. The objective is to recruit candidates for the next missions around the Moon, but also to prepare for future missions to Mars.
These men and women will also be called upon to go aboard the international space station.
Who can be a candidate? Pilots, engineers, doctors and other American citizenship scientists.
Following the selection process, NASA will announce the list of people selected in mid-2017.
This next group of American space explorers will help us reach the goal of pose humans on the red planet.
If it is preferable to be holding a master’s degree or a doctorate of a recognized university, the selection committee will also study graduates in engineering, biology, physical sciences or mathematics. An experience of three years of work in their field is also desired.
Pilots must have at least 1000 hours of flight.
-The candidates selected will also have to take the NASA medical examination in order to eliminate those who are not physically able to make long -term space flights.
The next group of astronauts will fly in developing vessels, including the Orion of Lockheed Martin and the Dragon of SpaceX, which is to enter service in 2017.
The latter is the first NASA capsule which will be able to take crews beyond the terrestrial orbit from 2021.
This is an exhilarating period to be part of the American habid space exploration program.
Since the 1950s, NASA has formed more than 300 astronauts to make flights in space.
Currently, the active body of astronauts has 47 members, against 149 in the year 2000 at the peak of the space shuttle program.
Did you know?
- The Canadian astronaut program was created in 1983. Since 1984, the year Marc Garneau has become the first Canadian to fly in space, eight Canadians have traveled on the American and Russian shuttles.
- In May 2009, after a long selection process that lasted about a year, Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques were selected and are currently the two active astronauts from the Canadian space agency.
