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NASA's new astronaut candidates report to Houston to begin training - collectSPACE.com

NASA's new astronaut candidates report to Houston to begin training - collectSPACE.com

NASA's new astronaut candidates report to Houston to begin training - collectSPACE.com
Jan 10, 2022 1 min, 45 secs

space program," said Vanessa Wyche, director of Johnson Space Center, at the Dec.

Those who pass the two years of instruction will join NASA's astronaut corps and become eligible for International Space Station (ISS) and Artemis moon mission assignments.

"We have multiple human spacecraft, so it has never been a more exciting time to embark on your career," said NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, a former space shuttle astronaut.

Astronaut candidate (or "ascan") training falls into five major categories: operating and maintaining space station systems, spacewalking, robotics skills, piloting T-38 supersonic jets and Russian language skills.

"One of the things that drew me to wanting to become an astronaut was the fact that you get to do all of these different things and learn how to do everything," said Christopher Williams, a medical physicist whose research focused on developing image guidance techniques for cancer treatments.

So I think really just learning how everything works, how to maintain and operate it and successfully get us there and back — wherever there is — I think that's what I'm most excited about," she said.

"I am actually most excited about just getting together with these amazing humans in my astronaut candidate class," Ayers said.

"Now to transition into the space, I am just really excited about that and ready for this team."

For Anil Menon, not only are the technical details of spaceflight not new, but neither is Johnson Space Center

He previously served as a NASA flight surgeon for a number of astronaut expeditions to the International Space Station and then became SpaceX's first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company's first humans into space during the Demo-2 mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft

"What I am going to do here [as an astronaut candidate] is have to learn about Dragon, but also learn about all the other commercial partners' vehicles."

"I do think we are all on equal footing here because we will be just sharing our different insights across all these different vehicles as NASA works to move forward into Artemis, Mars missions and research support on the space station," he said

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