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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It’s because of the transferrable skills. I once saw a documentary where it was easier to train drillers to be astronauts than it was to train astronauts to drill. So being an astronaut isn’t hard, but flying in extreme conditions is and so that’s why they pick fighter pilots. Drilling is also hard so that’s why they chose drillers.
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