[rktman]

For a currently non-existent program. Maybe mark kelley-giffords will do us a favor and rejoin the corps. I hear the folks on Mars are in favor of more guncontrol. Do you have to work for elon musk? Do muzzies get preference?

[Darksheare]

I know, more muslim community outreach.
Send a crew of two muslims and two homos into space to show solidarity.
Have “Jihadis in spaaaaaace” logos standing by.

[Artemis Webb]

Well, I’m middle aged, overweight, my vision is kinda poor and I’m lousy at math. But I would love to ride on a rocket, so yeah, count me in!

[Buckeye McFrog]

White males with astrophysics degrees from MIT need not apply.

[alexander_busek]

"With more human spacecraft in development in the United States today than at any other time in history, future astronauts will launch once again from the Space Coast of Florida on American-made commercial spacecraft and carry out deep-space exploration missions that will advance a future human mission to Mars," said NASA in a statement.

I think that that should have read "...more human-rated spacecraft."

Regards,

[Sacajaweau]

Didn’t Hillary want to be an astronaut? Take her....please....

[Truth29]

It must be time for a Muslim, transsexual, gay, and whatever other flavor of the day, astronaut.

[smokingfrog]

Too bad clock boy moved to Qatar.

[originalbuckeye]

With ‘Muslim Outreach’ being their main stated goal, who would want to join NASA at this point?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The new criteria for successful entry into the astronaut program shall be black, female, lesbian who has experienced a “spiritual journey” through Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Confucianism and currently worships Gaea. She will be a single mother artificially inseminated and married to her "significant other." She will be a genius having graduated from the most prestigious elementary school in Washington D.C. Her IQ will be 85. She recently left Federal prison being released by the negro community organizer from Chicago, having served five years for involuntary manslaughter resulting from her killing a family of five whites using a machete.

[TheBigB]

We had survival training...I ate a butterfly.

[mass55th]

Only gays, and trannies need apply.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Recuiting new astronauts...? for what?...To change chandalier light bulbs in the White House?

[Cymbaline]

For hitching a ride on a Russian spacecraft?

[rsobin]

They should draft dwarfs and downsize everything. 1/3 the food ,fuel ,oxygen and most everything else. They are intelligent and with excellent dexterity. Whats the downside?

[HoosierWordsmith]

Maybe, this is one of the “really cool things” that Jeb was talking about?

[backwoods-engineer]

Muslims get in first, and the space station always points toward Mecca?

[GingisK]

I’m ready if they don’t mind using a lot more propellant than customary.

[DoodleDawg]

Space travel not required.

[dfwgator]

Whatever happened to NASSA?

[JoeFromSidney]

This brings back memories. Back in 1964 I received a letter from NASA (they must have sent out dozens if not hundreds) inviting me to apply to be a scientist-astronaut. The primary requirements were age less than 35, and a doctorate in some science. There were also other requirements, but these were the big ones.

I satisfied all the requirements. That wouldn't guarantee I'd be accepted, but at least I wouldn't have been rejected outright. I had been a "space cadet" since reading the Buck Rogers comic strip back in the 1940s, and being a science fiction fan ever since then. I was sorely tempted to apply.

Ultimately I didn't apply. I was satisfied with my Air Force career; I was married with several children, and didn't want to put my family through what families of astronauts went through; I really had other goals in life. So I dropped the letter in the wastebasket. I didn't even tell my wife then, or my children until many years later.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened had I applied. My life certainly would have been different. I'm not sure it would have been better, though.