Featured Work, Other, Travel - Monday, January 16, 2012 20:33 - 0 Comments

So you want to be an astronaut?

Discovery Channel Magazine, January 2012.

“Planned a mission to Mars lately? Ever replaced a gyro on an orbiting telescope travelling at 17,600mph in a full vacuum?”

There just aren’t enough recruitment ads like this. These are the opening lines of NASA’s guide to employee benefits for its next intake of astronaut candidates – which is open for applications right now. Being an astronaut has been a dream to young people ever since the dawn of the Mercury and Vostok programs, but for a select few, it can be a reality.

But have you got what it takes to be an astronaut? And just what is it that you need to become one? To find out, DCM assembled some of the most knowledgeable voices imaginable: the head of astronaut selection at NASA, and two of the nine surviving men who have not only gone into space, but walked on the surface of the moon. You can’t get better advice than that.

To see this article as it ran, as Discovery Channel Magazine’s cover story, click here: Discovery_How to become an astronaut

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