Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 325.5, so you want to be an astronaut.

I'm Dane Turner, and I'll be your host for this bonus episode.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists,

engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human space

flight and more. Have you ever wanted to be an astronaut? Well, now's your chance.

NASA is looking to recruit the next class of astronauts and applications are open.

I recently sat down with the manager of NASA astronaut selection, April Jordan, to find out more about the selection

process and what NASA is looking for in their next astronaut class.

Enjoy. B-0. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. Lonski. Mark. April, thank you so much for coming on Houston, we have a podcast.

Thank you for having me.

It's an exciting topic to talk about.

We're really excited to talk about.

We're really excited to talk about. We're really excited to meet our new astronauts

and have people apply to be the next class.

So looking back on the 2020 application process, that's when the current class applied to be an astronaut. How many

applications did we receive back then? Yeah, this is a very popular

application as you can imagine. Last year we had over 12,000 applications in for this role.

To get to selection of 10 new astronaut candidates is really difficult.

That's a lot of applications to go through. And that year we had some

new requirements added. Applicants had to have a master's degree. With this new selection, do we have new requirements coming out?

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