NASA flight opportunities!

[Cron]

Looks like NASA are looking for pilots/crew for:

Parabolic Flights
High Altitude Balloon Flights
Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Flights

http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external...6C5D60-20F3-E7FE-D4A3-710AE8AA43B6}&path=open

More info on current NASA platforms: https://flightopportunities.nasa.gov/platforms/im

Pretty doggone amazing. Now you can be this guy:

 

[Uncle Fester]

Welcome to Earf!

Seriously though...sounds neato.

 

[BACONATOR]

Parabolic flights? So, make people puke for a living? That's what I'll be doing in a few weeks. Seriously though, I'd be game to say "I'm a pilot for NASA".

 

[BUDU]

High altitude balloon flights? So would you get the half-wing as an astronaut badge?

 

[Renegade One]

High altitude balloon flights? So would you get the half-wing as an astronaut badge?

Don't think the altitudes achievable in a balloon would qual for Astronaut wings...but you'd be amazed at the things you can get made in Korea or the PI...

NASA is, I think, the only entity still flying B-57s in the WB-57 configuration (only two in service).

Here's a link: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/b-57_feature.html

 

[BUDU]

Don't think the altitudes achievable in a balloon would qual for Astronaut wings...but you'd be amazed at the things you can get made in Korea or the PI...

True...I guess I just have Baumgartner stuck in my head. Close enough to "space" for a liberal arts major like myself!

 

[Renegade One]

Close enough to "space" for a liberal arts major like myself!

Space is where you find it...

 

[BACONATOR]

Space is where you find it...

Or what some people take up.

 

[HuggyU2]

... still flying B-57s in the WB-57 configuration (only two in service).

True... however, a third one will be restored and flying in just a few months from now.
It was mothballed in '72, and I believe it will be the longest-mothballed aircraft to ever be put back into service.

 

[Harrier Dude]

NASA is, I think, the only entity still flying B-57s in the WB-57 configuration (only two in service).

Here's a link: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/b-57_feature.html

Saw this thing at KNKX a few weeks ago. Pretty cool.

 

[jmcquate]

True... however, a third one will be restored and flying in just a few months from now.
It was mothballed in '72, and I believe it will be the longest-mothballed aircraft to ever be put back into service.

Is it one of these?

 

[Uncle Fester]

Neat! I'd love to backseat in one of their B-57s. Imagine they're Weatherman/Earth Science types, though, yes?

 

[jmcquate]

Neat! I'd love to backseat in one of their B-57s. Imagine they're Weatherman/Earth Science types, though, yes?

The NASA WB-57s are used for upper atmoshere researce. They used to have a couple of U-2s too.

 

[Gatordev]

Neat! I'd love to backseat in one of their B-57s. Imagine they're Weatherman/Earth Science types, though, yes?

Flash may come by and smack me, but "upper atmosphere research" is kind of a general term for some of what they do, if you catch my drift.

 

[Flash]

Neat! I'd love to backseat in one of their B-57s. Imagine they're Weatherman/Earth Science types, though, yes?

Flash may come by and smack me, but "upper atmosphere research" is kind of a general term for some of what they do, if you catch my drift.

Not sure what the exact quals are for flying the WB-57 and/or NASA in general but I think they are probably like NOAA in that they require a basline of knowledges testing/engineering/science-wise to get a gig with them. They would be more flight-focused than NOAA, looking for significant flying experience, but I don't think they'll take a history major with just the standard military flight expereince.

Whatever the WB-57 does the guys and gals who fly it were all retired military last I knew and that made it easier for them to fly out of places like Afghanistan where they were looking for minerals that could be mined.