HARROW: Looking for an out-of-this-world job? NASA’s hiring their next crop of astronauts and will be accepting applications as of next month.
The American space organization announced the job openings last week, saying they will need new astronauts in order to resume their space launches and prepare for NASA’s Mars mission.
Nicole Cloutier, a spokeswoman with NASA, says the response so far has been “amazing,” generating a flood of online attention.
“Everyone has expressed a lot of excitement about the opportunity to join NASA as an astronaut,” she told CBC News in a written statement.
“For the last selection, we had more than 6,000 applicants. Historically, on average, NASA has had around 2,000 applicants for each application opportunity.” She did not say how many she thinks will apply this time around.
While applications will be accepted from Dec. 14 to mid-February of next year, the new astronauts won’t actually be named until mid-2017. NASA last put out a call for astronauts in 2011.
