What could you do to improve the accuracy of your judgments of candidates' personalities?
2007-12-07 15:30:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
My choices would depend upon whether it was going to be a return flight or just one-way! LOL
2007-12-07 15:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not a matter of accuracy. There are plenty of people who would be equally qualified. With people one can not perfectly know in advance what will happen. But as you can see with the Apollo astronauts (and certainly any number of people in jobs like firefighters, surgeons, soldiers etc.) some people stay cool, no matter what. Now combine that with technical expertise (not rare at all) and intelligence (not rare either) and you got yourself a candidate. Most people who are not suitable will wash out over the ten years the program will take before the flight. By the time these people will get to fly, they will be almost bored by the reality of it because they will have exercised every predictable event and then some.
You can only go to an oil drilling platform to pick up some heros to fly the space shuttle to an asteroid in the movies. In reality astronaut is a job like many other. You don't get to do the real stuff until you are really ready. And that could take half your professional life or more.
2007-12-07 15:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mental stability under high stress, long term situations in a confined space and compatibility of the cremates personality's
also I would need to make sure that they would obey an order from control even when they are millions of miles away from earth, don't need any crews going renegade up there
2007-12-07 15:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by Michael W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋