{"id":117601,"date":"2016-01-20T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T10:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/20\/the-latest-class-of-nasa-astronauts-is-50-female-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T10:58:25","slug":"the-latest-class-of-nasa-astronauts-is-50-female-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/20\/the-latest-class-of-nasa-astronauts-is-50-female-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest class of NASA astronauts is 50% female"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest class of NASA astronauts is 50% female<\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest class of NASA astronauts, recruited in 2013 and already in training, will also be candidates for the first trip to Mars, and for the first time in NASA history, 50 percent of them are female.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The class of is made up of eight recruits in total<\/a> – Josh Cassada, Victor Glover, Tyler Hague, Christina Hammock, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Anne McClain, Jessica Meir, and Andrew Morgan – selected from a pool of around 6,100 applicants. That\u2019s a fierce 0.0013 percent success rate.<\/p>\n

The application process alone took 18 months of rigorous medical and psychological testing, and the recruits are now going through two years of training before they\u2019ll officially join NASA\u2019s 46 currently active astronauts.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s really cool is that they\u2019re the first class to be candidates for the mission to Mars. \u201cIf we go to Mars, we\u2019ll be representing our entire species in a place we\u2019ve never been before. To me it\u2019s the highest thing a human being can achieve,\u201d McClain told Ginny Graves<\/a> in an exclusive interview for Glamour magazine at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

That training, as you can imagine, is pretty intense, with the candidates learning how to fly T-38 supersonic jets, practicing walking around underwater in spacesuit that weigh 181 kg (400 pounds), and surviving what\u2019s called the vomit comet, which simulates weightlessness through freefall.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re also being taught a whole bunch of general survival skills that might help them cope with the myriad things that could go wrong on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest class of NASA astronauts is 50% female sci-universe: The latest class of NASA astronauts, recruited in 2013 and already in training, will also be candidates for the first trip to Mars, and for the first time in NASA history, 50 percent of them are female. The class of is made up of eight … <\/p>\n

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