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The astronaut candidates must be prepared to be patient for the job, though. The application period closed on January 27, 2012. There is an extensive period of review, interviews, medical testing, and other things to start to weed through and narrow the 6,372 candidates for NASA to hire but a few.
Candidates are required to have at least a bachelor's degree - most astronauts have a master's or a doctorate - in engineering, biological science, physical science or math. Successful astronaut candidates must learn Russian, but be a U.S. citizen. To advance in the selection process, one must know basic physics. Being a medical doctor or a teacher helps. Candidate eye sight must be corrected to 20/20, no high blood pressure and be between 5 foot 2 inches and 6 foot 3 inches.
The current crop of astronaut applicants are the second-highest number of applications ever received. More than 8,000 applied to become one of the 35 NASA ASTRONAUTS IN 1978 - the class selected to fly missions during the advent of shuttle operations.
In about three to five years, NASA hopes to purchase trips for astronauts headed to the space station on American-built commercial rockets, instead of riding the Russian Soyuz rocket and capsule to orbit and the International Space Station. And eventually, NASA hopes to fly astronauts in a government owned Orion capsule to an asteroid or even Mars, but those pioneering trips are more than a decade away.
From the most recent applicants, NASA will select only nine to 15 to join the astronaut corps in March 2013. Salary range: 64,724.00 TO 141,715.00 / PER YEAR + BENEFITS. Extensive foreign travel, public speaking and training is to be expected, plus some space travel from time-to-time.
Source: space-wanderers.blogspot.com
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