how to be a astronaut?

Question

what qualifications do i need

ive always wanted to be one but then i dont but then i do because id love to be out there

the one that goes up ti space

Answer 1

Only the most highly skilled applicants enter NASA's space program, and fewer still make it into space. Depending on their background, astronauts train as pilots or mission specialists.
You can obtain an application package by writing to the Astronaut Selection Office, Mail Code AHX, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, 77058, or call [phone]


Steps you should know.

Step One
Know that you must be between 5 feet 4 inches and 6 feet 4 inches tall to be a pilot and between 4 feet 10 1/2 inches and 6 feet 4 inches to be a mission specialist. You also need to be in top physical condition and have great stamina.

Step Two
Maintain an excellent academic record in your undergraduate and graduate studies. Many astronauts have doctoral degrees.

Step Three
Choose a scientific field for your bachelor's degree that you can use if you become an astronaut. Possibilities include medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering and mathematics.

Step Four
Make certain you have at least 3 years of work experience in your field before applying as a mission specialist. An acceptable substitution might be a 2-year graduate degree with 1 year of experience.

Step Five
Have at least 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft, preferably with flight-test experience, if you wish to be a mission pilot.

Step Six
Send for an application package (see Tips for the address). You'll have to pass the strict NASA physical as a basic qualification.

Step Seven
Realize that if you're accepted as an astronaut candidate, you're committing yourself to a training period of 1 to 2 years in Houston without a guarantee that you'll ever go into space. Training will be intense and often in low-gravity conditions. It will include land and sea survival training and scuba diving.

Step Eight
Prepare to remain with NASA for at least 5 years if you pass the training period and are accepted as an astronaut.

Tips & Warnings
If you're claustrophobic, don't apply to be an astronaut. Your problem will definitely be discovered.
Consult the NASA Web site (see Resources) for more specific information about appropriate degrees.
You must be a team player at all times. Lives will depend on you.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It is tough to become an astronaut for NASA. The most common way is to join the navy or air force, and complete flight training. Typically they prefer the best military pilots, with test-pilot experience.

Another way, but not as common as the military path, is to earn a doctoral degree in engineering, and gain experience working for companies like TRW or Loral that produce communication satellites. Again, a pilot's license for multi-engine aircraft is a good additional qualifying credential. These people become payload specialists, experts in satellite systems that ride in non-pilot roles on space missions.

And there are also mission specialists, experts, usually with PhD degrees in astrophysics or biological sciences related to earth ecology or human biology, who direct the various scientific experiments taking place on the space station or other manned craft.

For an astronaut career, you typically should decide early in life, before you graduate high school, and have a plan to gain the piloting experience (most probably through military service).

Even then, there is no guarantee. Many exceptional pilots have been passed over by the space program.

If you are still young, you may have more options, because space technology is rapidly moving out of NASA and into the private sector. This means the military to NASA pathway may not be the only way up in the near future. However, it may take 20 to 50 years for non-government astronauts to become common.

Answer 4

any person who reaches an altitude of 100 miles or more from earth's surface is considered an astronaut by the american space agency,it is different to become a cosmonaut.the only thing u need is to find a way to reach that altitude....u actually don't need Phds or 1000hrs flight experiance(flied a plane) or should be filthy rich(these r the people who go out there)...

Answer 5

Yes check out the NASA site, but also look at the current and past Astronaut's Bio's. Check out what all they have done (education, past experience, military... etc...) and that should give a good idea of what NASA is looking for.

Answer 6

You got to be "tops in your field", and that field would be astrophysics, aeronautics, electronics,....very high tech stuff. You got to be able to fix things with limited resources and a whole lotta brain power when stuff goes wrong.

".....but then I don't but then I do......."

Can't be wishy-washy and be a NASA astronaut. They won't take that. Got too many go-getters scratching at their doors.

Answer 7

look at www.nasa.gov