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Currently, the US National Agency for space exploration selects people who will become new US astronauts. This hunt for the best of the best is already approaching end, and the agency management reports interesting news: in this year, the largest spaceman responded to the vacancy the number of Americans in the history of NASA.
The previous record was set in 1978. Then become astronauts wanted about eight thousand inhabitants of the United States. This may seem like a modest figure, but on in fact, American citizens look at the situation quite realistic. NASA has long made it clear that it needs the most healthy and hardy people. In addition, some analyzes applicants for the position must pass for their money. therefore only those who are really ready to fly space, really wants this and also has the necessary facilities.
This year, space agency sent their applications eighteen thousand three hundred Americans. In 2012, when he passed previous selection, applicants were less than half of this figure. The process of selecting the best women and men has already begun. Only eight to fourteen people will become the first residents of the United States, who will go into outer space.
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The list of individuals who have received the post of astronaut will be announced the summer of next year. Applicants will pass numerous tests and interviews. Then the already selected Americans will pass two-year internship and basic training with all kinds training sessions. The salary of an American astronaut is today from sixty five to one hundred forty two thousand dollars a year in depending on qualifications. It is noteworthy that Russian astronauts entering orbit receive much more: from one hundred thirty to one hundred fifty thousand dollars in six months stay outside the home planet.
For what purpose does NASA train astronauts?
NASA CEO Charles Bolden reports: “Some of the most gifted, as well as physically and morally hardy people from this groups will be selected for work by astronauts. They will fly to deep space on an American ship from American land. “If NASA will indeed implement in the near future manned flight to Mars, as promised, it is possible that one of these people really go to the red planet and become real a pioneer on it.
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And it seems like the Americans really want to go on Mars, because this mysterious planet has long attracted them. Not by chance accumulated information about the Red Planet using rovers, NASA intensely hides from earthlings. Even the little that leaked into the press and has become public knowledge, makes to believe that Mars is not as lifeless as they want to imagine Americans (watch the video). And although virtual archaeologists continue to find reasonable evidence on the Red Planet civilization that was or even still survives there, NASA pretending to be all illusions and fantasies that do not deserve attention of scientists. And officially continues with the help of expensive rovers “study the Martian soil”, which causes skepticism even representatives of orthodox science smile, not to mention ufologists and online archaeologists.
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