+photonman54 Or we could farm enough electricity to power the USA for one year and warp the space around a spaceship and go 10x the speed of light, reaching that planet in 3.9 years.
+Austin F. // GFX that's not how that works, you need a negative energy-density to warp spacetime in a way for an alcubierre drive to work. Also, "farming" all of the US's energy isn't as simple as that, you'd need to store it and then put it on the ship, somehow
+Quenten Schoonderwoerd Bachelor's Degree is what you get upon completion of a a 4-year or 5-year university program. Most people who earn Bachelor's degrees are around age 22/23
Lindsey Schuyler I wouldn't say that. Ohio was really great when I visited! There just happens to be a large number of Astronauts from Ohio- NASA even had a page on it before I think.
Nova Strike I love living in Ohio, because even if the weather is screwy, aside form the very occasional tornado we don't have to deal with pretty much any natural disasters.
Well, darn... there's just no way that I can start flight school *and* pull in 1000+ hours of jet flight experience, all by February. XD Oh, and the cost... anybody want to put me through flight school? :D
+stellarfirefly Well theoretically if you could stay up for 42 days straight and during that time keep your wits well enough to not be considered a danger and fly a jet non stop during that time then you would not only qualify but also set several world records.
+stellarfirefly i know the feeling... I have my PPL and plan to be a commercial pilot someday and hearing about this kind of made me depressed. I always wanted to be an astronaut but the amount of time it would take to get the training to even begin jets is years for most people. If I do end up making it to commercial flying, my luck would have it that the US govt scrapped all of NASA together and we won't be going to space anymore.
When you said there was no age limit I came up with this question:"So I can be 15 and become an astronaut??"But then I realized the other requirements:You have to have a bachelor's degree.
+Lynxchillin08 +Inorganic Vegan I'm playing the theme from inception, while reading your comments. Please make more comments, preferably with a mindblowing yet unexplained plot twist at the end. WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER.
After a few months I'd probably eat my crew mates just for the extra living space. Or just so I can feel closer to them. I want to go to Mars. With lots and lots of people. Healthy, young juicy delicious.. I mean... IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!
Dang it, I'm halfway through my STEM degree, I'm gonna work in the airforce for a while and I'm gonna train for their physical tests, but I don't have an American nationality, somebody help meeeee. I wanna be an astronaut. I am eligible for the European Space Agency, though... What do i do?
Psychology counts as qualifying field, though only in a few areas such as experiments, physiological or clinical psychology. Behavior-related fields within Biology are also qualifying including Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Can you make a video about the Transition Method? I think most viewers would be interested in knowing the probability of a solar system's plane being aligned exactly with our viewline. Must be a very small value and still we find so many systems that fulfil this requirement. And if we find such systems in a disproportionally high number of stars watched, what might be the reasons for that co-alignment?
I won't have my degree in time to be a part of this NASA recruitment wave, but if they follow the same pattern of recruiting new astronauts every 5 - 10 years then I should be ready for the next one. Is it possible to get experience in aircraft that would make me a more likely candidate without joining the airforce? And if not, how would joining the airforce to get flight experience to be an astronaut look in the grand scheme of things? Do most astronauts have that flight experience from the military? I was under the impression only the commander and pilot would have that experience.
Specifically, wheat STEM fields besides psychology and nursing don't count? Also, why don't psychology and nursing count? If there is going to be a long range space mission, wouldn't having a nurse and/or psychologist help?
I can fit the requirements but I'm not a US citizen. Also it's a good thing they ditched the soyouz rockets because I'm too tall to qualify for those ones
+Ako Harvey If you're only 14 and already have a bachelor's degree in a STEM program and have 3 years experience in a relevant field, I'm pretty sure we HAVE to make you an astronaut.
Unfortunately you aren’t eligible to get a pilot’s license in the US until you’re 16. EDIT: Since this post is 2 years old, you’re 16 now. Take flying lessons.
If only I could fix that whole pre-existing medical conditions thing, and I guess the experience thing would take about 3 years to get when the deadline is way sooner than that.
I graduate with a degree in chemistry a year and a half from now, so i hope nasa does the same thing again in about 7 years, assuming i've had a job in my field for 3 of them.
I wonder if allergies would disqualify me. But probably more important than that is my degree in Spanish, sedentary lifestyle for the past several years, and lack of experience doing anything relevant to this.
My dad wanted to be an astronaut when he was younger, but he didn't have the perfect vision required back then. I wonder if he could still do it at 50 haha.
I wonder if they would count being able to create working products out of absolute junk as relevant experience. After hearing about how the CO2 scrubbers were fixed on Apollo 13, I would say yes.
Why are psychology and nursing normally included in STEM? I mean don't get me wrong, they're both important fields to be sure. But STEM is science/tech/engineering/math. Psychology and nursing sounds more like medicine.
+AmberBTS :) He was simply asking why they classified nursing and psychology as STEM subjects when traditionally it is only science tech engineering math
"You'd be able to fly on the two rockets being developed by private companies right now." Hmmmm, private companies don't seem to have the best of records recently.
I'm a U.S. citizen. I have a bachelor's degree in physics. I'm physically healthy. I lack the experience, and I would probably fail the psychological exam. I'm claustrophobic.
1.6 Day orbit. Hmm.. could be hot enough to have a molten core and thus a magnetosphere. If it has that, it could definitely have an atmosphere. Without it, any atmosphere would probably be stripped away the same way Mars is having it's atmosphere stripped off by solar winds.
+CheezmonkeyUK I believe that is the minimum. From what I have heard, it takes flight experience, scuba experience, a PHD, and at least some experience in research or work for your related field of study, in order to be considered for an interview. They get to be picky when so many people want to join and the only need about 5-8 max.
+CheezmonkeyUK That's the formal requirement. You also need to be the right kind of person, and astronauts these days are generally "professional learners". The people who fit that particular requirement tend to _want_ to learn more anyway, so it's not particularly surprising if quite a large proportion of the selected candidates have more than the minimum education.
+CheezmonkeyUK I know someone who has multiple Bachelor and Master degrees and is working on his second PhD. He has is a scientist working at NASA who has other friends with similar degrees all applying to go to space.
however I did go through a burning when I did put it on my eyes my face burned but I survived it I mean if you can get that close to the jellyfish to do that without reading it I mean perhaps if one is washed up on the beach you might be able to use one use that one but remember the one that does it to test it will go through a burning in their face cuz I did
