As part of the preparation for the flight to Mars NASA announced the opening of recruitment for the expedition. Applications will be accepted from those wishing to 14 December 2015 to mid-February 2016. The names of the lucky ones will be announced in mid-2017, according to the official website of the agency.
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The selection is conducted among the citizens of the United States, and they must have at least a completed university degree from an accredited institution in specialties such as engineering, biology, physics or mathematics, a degree is desirable . You must also have a minimum of three years professional experience or bump thousand hours as a pilot of a jet airplane. In addition applicants have to pass physical tests at NASA.
Recall, according to the recently unveiled a program of preparation for the flight to Mars, manned spacecraft will travel to the Red Planet, approximately in the middle of the 2030′s. Expeditions will be preceded by a long preparation, participation in which it will also have to take astronauts to the new set. It is the work of the International Space Station, not only about the traditional semi-annual missions, but also for a year.
In 2018 the first scheduled for the first joint launch of a reusable spacecraft Orion (for four astronauts) and extra rocket SLS (Space Launch System) – they were developed specifically for the Mars program.
In 2020, a robotic probe will go to one of the near-Earth asteroids, choose a sufficiently large boulder as a model, take him away and take into lunar orbit ( Asteroid Redirect Mission, ARM). After some time, a captured asteroid will travel manned spacecraft: Astronaut task will study the object and take samples from it. This experience will help to further explore the cosmic bodies with weak gravity, including the moons of Mars – Phobos and Deimos.
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