NASA is now accepting applications for the next class of Artemis-generation astronauts.
Submit your credentials between March 2 and 31 for a chance to join one of the nation’s most exclusive clubs.
Over the past five decades, NASA has selected 350 people to train as astronaut candidates. Now, with 48 rocketeers in its active corps, the agency needs more crew members to fly shuttles into outer space.
“We’re celebrating our 20th year of continuous presence aboard the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit this year, and we’re on the verge of sending the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement.
“For the handful of highly talented women and men we will hire to join our diverse astronaut corps, it’s an incredible time in human spaceflight to be an astronaut,” he continued. “We’re asking all eligible Americans if they have what it takes to apply.”
Basic requirements include United States citizenship and a master’s degree in a STEM field (engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science, or mathematics will do).
No master’s? No problem.
U.S. nationals can also enlist with one of the following:
- Two years (36 semester hours/54 quarter hours) of work toward a PhD program in a related science, technology, engineering, or math field
- A completed doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine degree
- Completion (or current enrollment that will result in completion by June 2021) of a nationally recognized test pilot school program
Candidates must also have at least two years of “related, progressively responsible professional experience” (whatever that means), or at least 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft.
And, assuming you meet all of those requirements, you’ll have to pass NASA’s long-duration spaceflight physical.
Fresh-faced astronauts could find themselves living and working 250 miles from Earth aboard the ISS. Or perhaps visiting the Moon’s surface.
After returning humans to our satellite in 2024, NASA plans to establish sustainable lunar exploration before the end of the decade. New data collected on and around the Moon will prepare the agency to send people to Mars in the mid-2030s.
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