Dream Job? NASA Is Hiring New Astronauts For Moon Mission

Dream Job? NASA Is Hiring New Astronauts For Moon Mission


For anyone reminiscing about their childhood, you may remember being asked at school “what do you want to be when you’re older?”
Doctor, sports player…astronaut! All very common answers, and although few of us follow through with our childhood dreams and career ambitions, now may be your chance to become employed in one the world’s rarest positions.
NASA is now looking for new astronauts to reach the South Pole of the moon by 2024. The American space agency wants the first person to reach the southern pole of the moon to be a woman, with a male also joining on the mission. Applications are set to open in just over a week on March 2.
With the dawn of SpaceX and other private agencies aiming to put humans on Mars, the world’s attention on space travel has rarely been this high since the space race in the 1960s which saw the U.S. and the former USSR battle it out to out the first person in space and eventually put the first man on the moon.
NASA and SpaceX have ambitions to put humans on Mars by the mid-2030s and the space agency has said that the recruitment drive for the new Moon program will help with preparations for the Mars missions.
There are currently just 48 astronauts in the astronaut corps, and with just 350 people being trained under the NASA astronaut program since the 1960s, the role remained one of the more rare and exciting positions available in the world.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that “for the handful of highly talented women and men we will hire to join our diverse astronaut corps, it’s an incredible time in human spaceflight to be an astronaut. We’re asking all eligible Americans if they have what it to takes to apply beginning March 2″
The position will require at least 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft, as well as a Masters degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) in addition to two years of work towards a Ph.D in a related STEM field, or a doctorate of medicine or osteopathic medicine, or completion of a nationally recognized test pilot program.


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