No astronaut hiring

[Coool Hand Luke]

I hear John and Martha King are going to be the first husband and wife team to cammand the shuttle. I can't wait until that video comes out. It's the only way I will be able to score a 100% on the astronaut written.

 

[Cpt. Underpants]

If you fly for Virgin Blue (Australia), you would have a chance...

They are recruiting two of their 737 drivers for the Virgin Galactic Program.

Cool. Fly space tourists for crappy wages.

Virgin Blue and Virgin Galactic have announced an “out of this world opportunity” whereby two pilots now flying for Virgin Blue could become astronaut pilots of the future! Six Virgin Blue pilots will be short listed and sent to the United States to undergo final selection by NASA.
All Virgin Blue 737 pilots with a minimum of 500 jet hours are invited to apply for the 27 month secondment to train as fully-fledged astronaut pilots and fly space tourists on the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo from 2008/9 onwards.
The successful candidates will relocate to the USA and will undergo highly specialised training including nine months of aerobatic, fast jet and executive aircraft for zero gravity flights training. They will then spend the next nine months flying the Virgin Galactic mothership named “White Knight” and will also participate in Mission Control work -the last nine months will be spent flying Virgin Galactic Spaceship missions into space. Once they have completed their 27 month secondment they will return to Virgin Blue as Australia’s first qualified pilot astronauts.
The two selected Virgin Blue pilots will have the opportunity to command SpaceShipTwo on its missions.

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All Brisbane based pilots are invited to attend the Pilot Forum on Thursday June 15th at The Simulator Centre. ​

If you can’t make that, don’t worry – there’ll be lots more information coming your way soon!

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Yea, but at least you wont have any overnights!

 

[Almerick07]

thats why i havnt gotten a call back

 

[foofighter145]

Screw Nasa

Public Domain is where it's at Rutan style

 

[NuGuy]

Screw Nasa

Public Domain is where it's at Rutan style

While I like what Rutan does, just going into low earth orbit makes Rutan's deal look like a trip around the patch in a J-3.

When he puts something into orbit, and it stays there for more than a couple of swings around, then that will be something interesting.

Nu

 

[kevdog]

I can't wait to join the colony on Mars and walk around in space suits! It's so exciting

 

[McNugget]

Yeah, dude, I hear that Arrow is working on a rocket-conversion for the DC-10-30, since they have pissed off everyone on Earth.

 

[Danny040]

Do astronaut commanders get issued a type rating for the shuttle? If so, what is it's designation? Just curious and bored tonight....

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Not sure if there is a type for the STS, but i'd guess that if there is they would probably have to sign a training contract. <joke> Is NASA PFT? Can you imagine?