Would getting a doctorate in Aerospace engineering be enough to become an astronaut?

Question

If I were to get a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering, would that be enough to become an astronaut? Now, I am not counting all the medical exams and stuff.

If not, what else would you need if you did not want to go into the test pilot, air force, and that type of stuff?

Answer 1

A degree in Aerospace engineering will do you no good in becoming an astronaut. If you want to build spaceships, it'd be great. If you want to fly them? You're looking at a career in the air force!

Answer 2

If you don't want to fly stuff, why become an astronaut, then?

As a scientist you will always know that whatever you are doing in space can be done much better and much cheaper by a machine and that you are only up there as a fig leaf for government porking of aerospace contractors.

Think about it again. And then either become a pilot or an engineer or a scientist. But not because you want to become an astronaut but because you want to become a pilot or an engineer or a scientist. And if it turns out that you have the right stuff, you can probably still add that astronaut raining.

And you can be two out of three or three out of three if you have the energy. No problem with that.

Good luck!

Answer 3

See nasa mentor protege application. 2009 or nasa mentoring application. 2009 For ideal suggestion, Ask those interior the interest. NASA has many mentoring classes. in many fields .could desire to kind them out

Answer 4

Go on to the NASA site and look at the many case histories

(NASA tv)

Answer 5

try this link
http://www.nasajobs.nasa.gov/astronauts/content/broch00.htm

also a bit about engineering can be found here
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm

Answer 6

no it would help you in building and fabricating them and you would have to go through a lot of junk to be one