Why are most astronauts fighter jet pilots in the Air Force?

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Is it fitness and transferable skills? Seems like it would be most advantageous to be some sort of scientist. With the likes of SpaceX making it all more automated, will the demographic of astronauts change?

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Combination of education and skills , also back in the early days of NASA , potential astronauts were almost exclusively recruited from air force test pilots

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