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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In some ways you have to be especially clever. Physical fitness, a certain mentality, hand-eye coordination and those things. At the same time, you have to be damn fool enough to be shot up into space.

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