NASA begins selecting for the flight to Mars – Dni.Ru

11:51 / 05.11.2015 NASA, space, Mars the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration will begin to accept applications from those who want to fly to Mars. NASA will hold an open selection of candidates for the astronauts to December 14, 2015 to mid-February 2016. The list of the winners, who will travel to the Red Planet, will be known no earlier than 2017.

Scene from the film “Martian”

In preparation for a manned mission to Mars, NASA announced the start of receiving applications from those wishing to visit the Red Planet. Participation in the project will be able to accept only US citizens to produce not less than undergraduate – a university degree. For the mission are not suitable for all specialties, but engineers, mathematicians, physicists and biologists would be an advantage.

In addition, candidates must have at least three years of experience in the specialty or to provide documents about the presence of not less than one thousand hours of flight as commander of the jet . The agency states that the applicants will also have to undergo testing NASA’s physical endurance and tolerance of long flights.

Surprisingly, the age limit for flight to Mars by NASA does not pose. The winners will be announced in the middle of the selection in 2017. However, the favorites did not immediately fly to Mars, and will until then to participate in manned tests of the ship Orion, prepared for the Mars mission, which will take place no earlier than 2020.

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