To clear one thing up first, I'm a Canadian, so NASA does not apply to me 100%. But since I can't really ask this question anywhere else, and I figured that the people here are very helpful, so I might as well try. If the post gets removed because of this I completely understand.
I have read the astronaut selection process for both NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, and it kinda shattered my heart a little just how impossible it really is to become an astronaut. I initially thought the requirements listed on the website are very achievable, until reading the bios of past astronauts and realized that the requirements listed are pretty much the minimum you need to have to even be considered, for most of the selected astronauts have qualities that exceed the listed by far. Seriously, I thought their achievements are not humanly possible.
As retarded as I am, I always dreamed of going to space without even doing the right research, but now I have, and the question of "is the effort of trying to qualify really going worth it?" really hit me. I'm still in highschool, studied areospace for the past few years and planning on studying space-exploration related fields in college and after, in hopes of pursuing my dream. However, I realized that I need so much more than just simple experience within the field to qualify: most astronauts are extremely high ranked personals in the armed forces (the difficulty of achieving that is already astronomical), and have tons of mind-blowing academic achievements.
So what do you guys think? Should I throw myself 100% into pursuing my dream as an astronaut? Is the risk really worth it (apparently it's 30 times harder to become an astronaut than to be accepted by Harvard undergrad; Canada only had 14 throughout history)? What are the benefits and drawbacks? What should I do now to maximizing my chance?
And thank you for spending time to read my long and boring question
Submitted August 06, 2018 at 12:27PM by Wailyem https://ift.tt/2OIRJPw
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