What Does It Take To Be An Astronaut?

in #science7 years ago

During the early years of the Space program, the space organizations had no idea how the human body would react in space. They needed humans to give real time feedback in dangerous missions and needed to keep this top secret, so president Eisenhower decided that Military was the best place to look for potential candidates who were most equipped to tackle space.

That was the first time a criteria was set to select potential astronauts. A person needed to have:
1) Graduate from a test pilot school with more than 1500 flight hours
2) Hold a bachelors in Engineering

This led to the first batch of astronauts having 2 navy pilots, 3 Air-force pilots and 1 Marine Pilot. This continued on for the next few batches, until scientific experiments took the stage in space and NASA started looking for Candidates with Academic background with PhD's.

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Astronauts are movie stars, its all fake, we cant get out of low earth orbit. Do your research on this if you dont believe me. NASA are straight up liars, not a single truth from them in 20 years. Never A Straight Anwser

You're just ignorant.

do your research on the moon landing and then say something

I study this field. With all the information easily available, making statement like these should be highly humiliating to you.

your information is invalid, dont know where you study but that is just straight up lies. if not why are there several videos of nasa "iss" where you can clearly see air bubbles? you say you study this but dont know nasa is a fraud? lol

You just make unsubstantiated claims without any logic whatsoever. No one person will take you seriously.

tell me then why are all nasa pictures of earth CGI? if you know what cgi is ofcourse

You're so ignorant. Do you even know how data is collected and analysed?
You laymen just hypothesize without any actual knowledge and think everyone is there just to fool you.

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I did, now its your turn :)

NASA is a FRAUD. One day you will realize we NEVER Landed on the MOON

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