Your dreams of going out of this world may come true with NASA's opening of its astronaut program application process. If you get accepted, you'll even get paid up to $145,000 per year to live out your dream.
"In anticipation of returning human spaceflight launches to American soil, and in preparation for the agency's journey to Mars, NASA announced it will soon begin accepting applications for the next class of astronaut candidates," the space agency said on its official site.
"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," it added.
NASA will start accepting applications on December 14 until the middle of February next year, which means you still have time to deliberate the opportunity with your family or life coach and sleep over it through the holidays. Selected candidates, all US citizens, will reportedly be revealed in the middle of 2017.
You'll need to head over to www.usajobs.gov to apply.
"Flying experience is not a requirement, NASA said, and job seekers don't have to be rocket scientists," Time noted of the qualifications. "An advanced degree is not required to become an astronaut, and neither is perfect vision nor military experience."
Despite these details, there still are stringent requirements that need to be met.
"The requirements for Astronaut Candidates are a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in engineering, biological science, physical science, or mathematics," NASA's primer on Astronaut Selection and Training detailed.
"Degree must be followed by at least 3 years of related, progressively responsible, professional experience or at least 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft," it went on to say. "Additional requirements include the ability to pass the NASA long-duration space flight physical, which includes the following specific requirements: Distant and near visual acuity must be correctable to 20/20 in each eye, blood pressure not to exceed 140/90 measured in a sitting position, and the candidate must have a standing height between 62 and 75 inches."
Those are just some of the basic requirements for the job. Do you measure up?
These qualifications, apparently, did not deter Gizmodo's Adam Clark Estes from sending his own application, despite being "absurdly unqualified." Check out his cover letter, which had references to Matt Damon, Einstein, and a cyborg ear.
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