Astronauts??

[Cave_man]

i would really love to work in an Astronaut role but frankly have no idea on how to get into this line of work and am looking for some advice in what to do next. really just looking for what qualifications/courses i would need for this.

cheers!

 

[Glaucus]

You haven't got a hope in hell.
http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/astronauts/

Best chance I imagine would join the military as a pilot, then go one to be a test pilot and so on, always being the top of the class and the best in the world.

 

[Cosimo]

Here you go:

http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/astronauts/

 

[G-MAN2004]

Good luck with your NASA goals in 2011.

 

[Fenris]

You've got a better chance of winning the lottery and buying your way into space.

 

[Pighardia]

Is there nothing down the Job Centre?

 

[stokecity_m]

£58 - bargin

 

[Cosimo]

Best bet is to book a place and start saving:

http://www.virgingalactic.com/

 

[TriedandTested]

You haven't got a hope in hell.
http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/astronauts/

Charming, as ever.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Astronaut_Requirements.html - useful starting point.

REALLY tough, but not impossible. Someone's gotta make it!

Don't ever listen to the like of the above when following dreams. Plenty of people out there who missed their chance and ready to stamp on other's.

 

[Podmonkey]

NASA selects astronauts from a diverse pool of applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds. From the thousands of applications received, only a few are chosen for the intensive Astronaut Candidate training program. Including the “Original Seven”, only 339 astronauts have been selected to date.

Only 339 to date, a few of those will only have got through because they needed spares too.

Maybe email Russia. See what they're up too these days....

 

[Azza]

Join the army, become fighter jet pilot, become a bloody good pilot, finish army, work as test pilot in jet aircraft, then look at applying to become an astronaut.


Rather simple really.

 

[He'sDeadJim!]

^^ Good post.WeOwnTheSky.

 

[bhavv]

I think India's relatively newbish space program may be looking for volunteers to simply crash land into the moon.

You might want to try applying for that

 

[Wizzfizz]

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Couldn't agree more.

 

[Castiel]

i would really love to work in an Astronaut role but frankly have no idea on how to get into this line of work and am looking for some advice in what to do next. really just looking for what qualifications/courses i would need for this.

cheers!

The only real way for someone not already in the USAF/USN is to become a payload specialist and for that you would really need to be something other than an astronaut first.

Your biggest and probably insurmountable problem is that you need to be a US citizen to be accepted onto the Astronaut Candidate Program added to the fact that the Shuttle program is now defunct as well.

If space is your thing, I would concentrate on a career in cosmology, physics or engineering as being the likeliest pathway to getting into space at some point in the future.

 

[Jakstaar2007]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18264055

I think that i've found your long lost twin.

 

[G-MAN2004]

I think you've been trolled.

 

[Robbo]

I love how people who can't even put a sentence together properly want big and flashy jobs.

Hilarious.

 

[Wizzfizz]

Some of the richest and most successful people on the planet have problems putting sentences together, your point being?

 

[Robbo]

Some of the richest and most successful people on the planet have problems putting sentences together, your point being?

My point is that the OP isn't going to be an astronaut.