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Posted on 03/09/2010 1:47:16 PM PST by anymouse
Bigelow Aerospace seeks professional astronauts to fill permanent positions. Qualified applicants need to have completed a training program from their government or recognized space agency and have at least some flight experience on a recognized space mission. Specialized training and/or experience (ie: Medical, Payload Specialist, EVA, Pilot, etc.) is not a pre-requisite, but is definitely a plus.
Possible opportunities will come in two areas:
1) Ground - Working with Marketing Team to secure government and cooperate clients.
- Working with Design and Fabrication Teams to help optimize layout of systems for on-orbit serviceability and ergonomics.
- Working with Mission Control Team on final checkout of flight vehicles, both pre and post launch.
- Help Develop Astronaut training programs for Bigelow Aerospace Professional Astronaut Corps as well as Client Astronaut Corps.
- Work instructing in the Bigelow Astronaut Training Program
2) Flight
- Perform as Professional Astronaut aboard Bigelow Aerospace Station Complex
- Manage all onboard aspects of employee and customer astronaut personal safety
- Maintain the Station Complex as required (mainly IVA, but some EVA as well)
- Help clients with payloads or experiments (primarily with regards to integration into station’s systems and communications)
Bigelow Aerospace is a leader in the commercial space complex arena providing a Low Earth Orbital environment and necessary services to cooperate and governmental clients in support of space research and exploration.
Requirements You may apply online at http://www.bigelowaerospace.com or fax your CV to 702-456-9404.
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Wonder how many of NASA's astronauts will see Bigelow as a better path to space than waiting around for ever vanishing NASA flight slots.
commercial space ping
I nominate Rahm Emmanuel and Eric Massa.
It was a different time then....
Suitcase!
Cool! It’s likely that they’ll spend far more time in space than their government counterparts once they get going.
bflr
BTTT
Clearly a ploy to try to get an inside track to government largess. Inviting government trained crew to work on their projects brings the same doctrines that makes government programs overly expensive. It would seem Bigalow wants to adopts the zero tolerance to risk that dooms all publicly funded agencies to massive overruns.
Bigalow is revealed as a sham.
The NappyOne
Space is one cold....
I don’t have any kind of training for NASA but I’d still love to work with them on more than office cleaning.
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