Do you want to be an astronaut? Career routes that can take you to space

In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with the European Space Agency (ESA). The aeroplane flew big arcs up and down in the sky. At the top of the arc I experienced 22 seconds ...
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Nearly 18,000 people applied to be NASA astronauts. About 12 made it.

NASA receives 12,000 to 18,000 applications in a typical astronaut cycle and selects about ten to twelve people, an ...
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I got turned down to be a NASA astronaut 3 times — here's what finally worked

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Massimino overcame multiple rejections to become a NASA astronaut. Vision training helped Mike Massimino meet NASA's ...
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NASA Announces Its Artemis III Astronauts

Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas will be part of the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2028. The recent explosion of a ...
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I got turned down to be a NASA astronaut 3 times — here's what finally worked

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut who ...