Want to Be an Astronaut? Nasa is hiring and here is your chance

Nasajust issued a call for hiring on Yesterday for Astronauts that may fly on future missions aboard the newly built spacecraft or Nasa’s deep space Orion space capsule. Together with the USA spaceflight programme grounded since late 2011 when the space shuttle was retired, Nasa is seeking to strengthen its corps, which now consists of only 47 astronauts.

In 2000, in the summit of the space shuttle age, there were 149. US spacecraft is not going to return to flight until 2017 — though four veteran astronauts have been selected for the first spaceflights aboard Boeing’s new spaceship, the CST-100 Starliner, in 2017 and SpaceX’s Dragon crew ejection seat shortly after. “More will be desired to crew future assignments to the space station and destinations in deep space,” Nasa said in a statement.

Nasa and private aerospace firms are busily preparing for brand new assignments to the ISS which is the acronym for International Space Station as well as to deep space, which includes an asteroid and eventually to the Mars by the 2030s. “With more human spacecraft in development in America today than at any time ever, future astronauts will launch once again in the Space Coast of Florida on American-made commercial spacecraft, and carry out deep space exploration assignments that can improve a future human mission to Mars,” Nasa said.

“The next group of astronauts may fly on any of four distinct US boats in their careers: the International Space Station, two commercial crew spacecraft now in development by US firms, and Nasa’s Orion deep space exploration vehicle.” The bureau begins taking applications from 14 December through mid-February, it included, directing curious candidates to use atwww.usajobs.gov. Rentals will be declared in 2017.

Those considering using must be US citizens and also have a school or university degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or math, in addition to 3 years of professional expertise or at least 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft. Astronaut candidates must pass the Nasa long-duration spaceflight physical.