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 7:47 | history | edited | stuart10 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2018 at 22:24 | comment | added | Basil Bourque | NASA has made exceptions in its hiring policies: 9 Nazi Scientists Who Helped Build The American Space Program | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 3:22 | comment | added | Mike Harris | @AlexA The location of all of ESA's facilities is on their web site. The European Astronaut Centre is in Köln, next to CGN airport. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 23:00 | comment | added | Barmar | If immigration policies are moving more towards skill-based criteria, having the skills it takes to become an astronaut would probably help with becoming a citizen. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 19:04 | comment | added | Jeffrey | @stuart10 getting US citizenship might not be easy, but empirically it still is a piece of cake compared to becoming an astronaut. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 12:11 | history | edited | stuart10 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 12:10 | comment | added | stuart10 | Naturalised American citizens and duel nationals can become astronauts - e.g. Michael Foale was born in the UK but obtained US citizenship and later spent more time in space than any previous NASA astronaut. Obviously though, getting US citizenship is not easy if you aren't born with it. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 12:05 | comment | added | stuart10 | ESA has facilities all over Europe. I believe the astronaut corps is nominally based at ESTEC in the Netherlands, though in practice ESA astronauts currently spend most of their training in Russia and the rest in various other locations. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 12:04 | comment | added | 11684 | NASA employs only US nationals, yes. But couldn’t a naturalised citizen apply? Obviously ESA would be a better try but if someone is really bent on becoming an astronaut is citizenship really an issue? | |
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| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:54 | comment | added | Alex A | And that is where located in Europe? | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 10:52 | history | answered | stuart10 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |