Yes: Rakesh Sharma was a former Indian Air Force test pilot and became a cosmonaut. He became a cosmonaut only because he flew with the Russians, if he had flown with a European or American agency he would have been an astronaut.
Sunita Williams is an American astronaut. She started a career in the Navy and began training as a pilot in 1989. She graduated from Florida Institute of Technology in 1995 with a M.S. in Engineering Management. In 1998, she began her career as an astronaut with NASA.
A mission specialist is a NASA astronaut who does not pilot the spacecraft.
No all can not be astronauts, you have to be a science student, and you must be a jet pilot who has spent a certain number of hours in a jet plane.
Neil armstrong was a navy pilot and a astronaut, he is retired ,and now is a farmer.
To become a mission specialist or pilot astronaut, a person must be in excellent health and have a bachelor's degree in engineering, science or mathematics. Pilots must have at least 1,000 hours of jet aircraft time and mission specialist must have at least 3 years of experience in their chosen field.
That is now impossible. To become an astronaut, you have to be admitted to their Astronaut Training Program.
The motto of Indian Air Force Test Pilot School is 'Sukshamta Avum Utkarsh'.
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As he was a pilot he wanted to be astronaut and was chosen in the third batch of astronauts.
You should have passed college, with science and should be a jet pilot.
While he was a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California NASA sent out enquiries exmplaining the basics of the astronaut program and looking for volunteers. Neil thought it sounded exciting and signed up.
You firstly study at college to get in the air force as a pilot , from the air force you have to be the best of the best to get into the astronaut program. In the world at any one time there are only about 100 qualified astronauts, it is a very elite program no matter the country, and of that 100 very few make it into space.
Know your math, become a pilot in the airforce , get into engineering, and much more hard things! Good luck!
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Yael Rome
Kalpana Chawla's interest in flying was inspired by J.R.D. Tata, an Indian pilot and industrialist.
Sunita Williams is an American astronaut. She started a career in the Navy and began training as a pilot in 1989. She graduated from Florida Institute of Technology in 1995 with a M.S. in Engineering Management. In 1998, she began her career as an astronaut with NASA.