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Astronaut Selection
- Thread starter LetsFly
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This is advice that has been given over and over on this board and elsewhere to young guys like yourself with big goals in this business: worry now about the hurdles directly in front of you, not the hurdles that are 10/15/20 years down the road. It is good to keep your long term goals in mind but for you, step 1, the only step you should be worrying about at this point in your life, is getting into some sort of commissioning program (be it USNA or somewhere else). For some timeline perspective as a senior in high school this fall, you are a good 4 years from really worrying even about the pilot selection part of your goal. Probably 6 years from worrying about getting Hornets (or likely Super Hornet/JSF by then). About 10-11 years from worrying about applying to TPS and getting selected. You are also about a year away from college and starting some sort of first step towards commissioning. I'd worry about that first and leave the astronaut selection concerns for the new decade. There are just far too many unknowns and variables in the intervening years to do any semblance of planning ahead.
Yeager was never an astronaut. Or are you saying something else?
He was a test pilot.
If I've already got a B.A. degree that's in humanities and social sciences that required calculus and I'm trying to get a pilot slot now, am I pretty much SOL with regard to ever becoming an astronaut? I imagine it'd be pretty difficult to try and get a second bachelor's degree while in the Navy, though I'd be happy to try and kick the crap out of some CLEP/DANTES/AP Exams as I do pretty well on standardized tests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_B._Lawrence
Not only was she a knuckle-dragging helo pilot, but she flew God's chariot: the Phrog!
Not only was she a knuckle-dragging helo pilot, but she flew God's chariot: the Phrog!
Her having an engineering degree as well as having a legend for a father certainly didn't hurt her chances.
So she's two for two? Flew two platforms and both have been retired????
No disrespect, as I don't personally know her, more a comment on the "X factor" (or is it XX chromosome factor) of selection boards.
Technically our Marine friends are still hanging on to her for a while. If only we had the sense to do that with the STS.
But go easy -- there's plenty of retired things around here and we still like them!
A pretty big assumption, especially since she seems to have been very well qualified sex and father notwithstanding.