Timeline for How can I, a high school student in Bucharest, go on to become an ISS astronaut?
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| Oct 15, 2018 at 5:35 | comment | added | Antzi | @PeterMortensen Because Romania is not part of the ISS program. Danemark is. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 14:39 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | @Antzi: Why not? Andreas Mogensen did it (population: 6 million. Romania's population: 20 million - and about 2 times the BNP). | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 10:26 | comment | added | Graham | @Martin Oops, yes! "Since the ISS has not had very positive outcomes..." :) | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 8:55 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @Graham Is your comment missing a "not" somewhere? Otherwise it reads "The ISS worked well so they won't do anything like that again". | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 23:39 | comment | added | Graham | @AlexA Since the ISS has had very positive outcomes in exchange for the vast sums spent on it, it seems unlikely that anything similar will be built. That doesn't mean that no more space stations will be built - just that after the ISS white elephant, they will most likely need to justify their existence. That could be as an intermediate stop on the way to Mars, a place to do actual research (very little happened on the ISS), zero-G manufacturing, or something else. It's hard to see more of the same happening though. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 16:13 | comment | added | Antzi | @djr yes but the selection is made by countries and not on the ESA level. I highly doubt any Romanian will ever be flown by ESA to the ISS. Future programs aren’t off the table tho. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 12:01 | comment | added | 11684 | Yes, what djr said; NASA is not the only space programme. Maybe the ISS will retire soon but becoming an astronaut and seeing earth from space is still very well on the table for @AlexA; of course there are many (many!) applicants so you may not get in, but if you are in high school you still have as much chance as anyone. And looking at the NASA requirements (I imagine the ESA requirements are similar): if you fulfil those requirements it means you have a degree in a lucrative field and are in excellent physical shape; even if you don’t end up an astronaut you’d be doing quite well. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 11:23 | history | edited | Floern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 11:19 | comment | added | djr | Romania is a member state of ESA, which does have an astronaut corps. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 8:08 | comment | added | Antzi | @AlexA There are various plans, but it's too early to have any definite answer. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 7:59 | comment | added | Alex A | Do you have an idea that NASA will build a new ISS after the death of previous ISS? Or this is it? No more space stations? | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 7:55 | history | answered | Antzi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |