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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There are a lot of transferable skills, the most important one being able to keep calm and problem solve on the fly in extreme stress situations while moving at speeds that would instantly turn you into a fine red paste outside with gravity significantly outside of normal expected operations in a flying machine with more technology shoved into it than a bay area tech billionaires house.
Plus, the people who become astronauts tend to be the people who joined the air force and then also went on to become scientists.
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