пятница, 6 ноября 2015 г.

Enrolment of recruits astronauts for Mars exploration


The US space agency announced the upcoming gathering of applications for participation in the missions to Mars. The names of the new recruits, who will pass the hard pre-selection and subsequent testing will be announced in mid-2017.

The official announcement about the opening of a set of astronauts appeared on the official website of NASA. For future astronauts set strict requirements. Applicants must be US citizens, have the documents about the end of an accredited educational institution in the United States with a degree of not lower than bachelor's degree in engineering, biology, physics or mathematics. In addition, the candidate space travelers must have experience in the specialty for at least three years, or to provide documents on the presence of at least a thousand hours of flight as commander of the jet.

In case the bidder will be the first stage of selection, he will be tested for physical endurance and tolerance of long flights. It is expected that consideration of applications wanting to become astronauts will take place from 14 December 2015 until mid-February (year not specified in the report, but, obviously, refers to 2016 minutes). The names of qualifiers will be announced in mid-2017. Applications for participation in the training program for astronauts accepted online usajobs.gov. "The next generation of astronauts will inspire exploration of Mars, will reach new heights, leaving traces of man on Mars" - addressed to future recruits head NASA Charles Bolden.

According to the agency, a new generation of astronauts will fly "to any of the four spacecraft in the course of their careers." In particular, it is called the International Space Station, some two commercial ships, developed by US companies (probably talking about projects SpaceX and Boeing), as well as the ship Orion - the brainchild of the company Lockheed Martin.

According to NASA, is now in the "combat reserve" the space agency are 300 astronauts, 47 of which are involved in the program. "In the near future we will need more," - noted in the NASA.

Recall popularizing exploration of Mars US space agency has been doing for a long time. In late August, at NASA there was a special form, fill that Earthlings will make their names in the history of exploration of Mars. All names will be written on a special microchip that will travel in 2016 to the Red Planet as part of a space mission InSight. The exact dates of the beginning of the colonization of Mars is unknown - according to the latest NASA, the astronauts will be able to land on the Red Planet in the mid 2030's.

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