Astronauts To become an astronaut, you will need to have and do many things.First,you will need to have advanced training and eduacation.Say you have both and apply.Suppose you are accepted.You are now an astronaut candidate.Based on your background,you will either be a mission specialist or an astronaut pilot.Next, for one year,is your training for information and basic skills in the field.
   Know that there important but forgot their names?Well,you've come to the right site.Here is a list of a few astronaut names.

• Neil Armstrong
• Sally Ride
• Nancy J. Sherlock
• Tom Akers
• Edwin Aldrin
• Shannon Lucid

Fun & Little Known Facts

 

• Astronauts ate food in semi-liquid form from tubes squirted into there mouths on Mission Mercury.
• On Gemini 3 Gus Grissom ate part of a corned beef sandwich that his mission mate smuggled aboard.His NASA bosses got mad at him for breaking the rules.
• Alan B. Shepard Jr. of Apollo 14 played golf on the moon.He hit to balls and one of them went about 400 yards.
• For a subsitute of bread which has too many crumbs, astronauts use tortillas.
• Skylab had the first real freezer so astronauts could enjoy real,not freeze-dried ice cream.
• Astronauts were allowed to bring books with them incase they got tired of looking out the window.