Do kids even still want to be astronauts when they grow up? That was always right near the top of my list when I was a little boy. I was not quite six years old when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, and I’ll wager there weren’t many American boys born between 1955-1965 who didn’t harbor at least a passing fantasy about it. But I’m not even sure that my daughter even knows what an astronaut is.
Well, all you gentlemen of a certain age, there’s still hope. NASA’s hiring. The pay’s decent, and the requirements don’t seem all that tough: you have to be a U.S. citizen, pass the drug test and the physical, oh, and the posting says “some travel required”.
(Just make sure your diaper-wearing obsessed girlfriend doesn’t already work there, mm’kay?)
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My second oldest daughter wants to be an astronaut when she grows up. :)