"Private space companies are going to build their own teams of astronauts, am I right?"

"That's right, that's it, and it's all over the world."

"I don't know what to say anymore, Star Navigator Company is right!"

"Haha, I knew that the purpose of the Navigator Company's Moon Palace No. 2 was not so simple, and now the information has finally been strung together."

"Do you think it's necessary for private space companies to build their own astronaut teams?"

"I don't think it's necessary, let's not talk about small companies, and some of the world's large aerospace companies have not formed their own astronaut teams, but only transported astronauts from national space agencies."

"That's right, and the companies that claim to be commercial space tourism don't have their own astronauts, because they just send tourists into space, and they can't even go into space, so they can only fly suborbital."

"I think it's also the case that the so-called spacecraft that can go into space at present are all in the shape of an 'iron lump', and the routes are all set, and there is basically no need to control, whether it is to transport astronauts from national institutions or to transport space tourists."

"Maybe in a few decades, when the earth expands into space, we will need private astronauts, but now we definitely don't need it, I think the interstellar navigator is floating, and I can't recognize my own positioning."

"Isn't it just a test module on the moon? Is this floating? ”

"If you want to say that the national astronauts go up for scientific research missions, what do the astronauts of private space companies go up to do, live broadcast to earn gift money? Hahaha! ”

"That said, but do you want to be an astronaut?"

"Well, I think, the conditions of the Navigator seem to be a little more relaxed than at the national level."

"It's low, but I've read the whole text, and everyone here is smiling, and there is no play."

"I don't believe it, I'll go see ......"

After reading it, there was silence.

It's really nothing to do with them.

The Navigator company does not have high requirements for astronauts' academic qualifications, just a bachelor's degree in engineering, biology, physics or mathematics, and language and art are not considered for the time being.

The scope of enrollment of the company is all over the world, and if you don't choose the best of the best, a doctorate degree is likely to become the minimum threshold.

Yes, the people at Navigator also thought of these when they formulated these requirements, but they still set the threshold to a bachelor's degree.

What if there are some young geniuses who have just entered the undergraduate program?

There is such a threshold, and it will be said that it will be recruited first.

As a private company, they do not set a nationality threshold, but they are Tianxia's company in the end, and the logos of various devices are in Chinese, so they set a language condition.

If you are a foreigner, you must know Chinese, and you also need to pass HSK level 6, that is, Chinese proficiency test level 6.

Level 6 is the highest level, and candidates who pass can easily understand the information they hear or read in Chinese, and express their opinions fluently in Chinese, either orally or in writing.

This is the highest level of the exam, but it is the minimum standard for filling out the astronaut application.

The navigator is not some domestic universities that recruit international students, and as a result, international students can't even speak Chinese, and they have to find someone to serve.

The funniest thing is that international students who don't even know Chinese may not even be able to read the papers, and as a result, they get high scholarships every year.

Terrifying!

According to international practice, the selection of astronauts, regardless of gender, is usually between the ages of 25 and 45.

On-board engineers and mission specialists can be up to 45 years old, commanders and astronauts are generally between 25 and 40 years old, and payload specialists can be older than the above.

According to Tang Chao's instructions, their company's space journey will be more comfortable, so the age range can reach 55 years old.

Of course, this is the universal age, not the extreme, after all, there have been 77-year-old astronauts in space in history.

The astronauts recruited by Navigator are divided into space pilots and payload specialists.

The source of aerospace pilots is basically high-performance aircraft pilots, generally fighter and transport aircraft pilots, and the conditions for navigators are relatively relaxed, including civil aviation pilots, and even students who have just graduated from pilot colleges.

Their main task is to drive spacecraft.

As for the load experts, this scope is large, and the things they have to do include engineering construction, engineering maintenance, astronomical observation, earth observation, physical tests, chemical tests, biomedical tests and various technical tests.

Oh, by the way, and there are experts in agricultural planting, which is very much needed.

As soon as the detailed conditions came out, although a considerable number of people would be wiped out, more than 100,000 people still signed up on the first day!

Nothing else, there are more than 7 billion people in the world, even if there are only a small number of people who want to go to space, at least at the level of millions or tens of millions.

It has already been calculated when the space orbital shuttle mission was planned before.

And it's the first time a private space company has recruited astronauts like the world.

Private space companies mean that they are not as troublesome as official institutions, and there are naturally a lot of applicants.

Of course, the Navigator company screened it, and there were a lot of people joining in the fun, which was similar to the state of the reopening of the Moon Grand Prix.

However, after screening, there are more than 5,000 basically valid applications.

It's still the first day.

The entire application period is up to one month.

In the end, Navigator only needed 20 astronauts, including 10 astronauts and 10 payload specialists.

This data is obvious, although the ratio is 1:1, but those who know know that the proportion of space pilots recruited by the Navigator company is larger.

As for why Navigator did this, no one knows.

After all, the projects currently revealed by the Navigator company do not involve astronauts, not to mention Yuegong-2, which has landed firmly on the moon and will definitely not be able to drive, so there is no need for astronauts.

After that, it will cooperate with the Tianxia Space Agency on the space station project, docking on the first phase of the Tiangong space station, and there is no need for space pilots.

Even their "Yuanhang" super-heavy rocket, which has never seen the propaganda of manned people, is a variety of cargo, including the launch of the new space station module.

They're going to get a compartment that's more than 6 meters in diameter.

It stands to reason that if they want to cooperate with the Tianxia Space Agency, they only need to recruit load experts, after all, the Tianxia Space Agency has space pilots.

The outside world speculates that they don't agree with Tianxia and want to set up their own doors?

If so, Merriken Noh blossoms.

Thinking about it later, it shouldn't be possible.

If that were the case, the other party should have agreed to join Merrican, and he would not have refused in the first place.

rejected Merriken, it should be closer cooperation with Tianxia and can get more benefits.

This is how capital thinks.

Or, will the Navigator also enter the manned space market in the later stage, or even the commercial space tourism market?

But to enter the manned spaceflight and commercial space tourism market, you don't need so many astronauts, right?

Can't guess.

However, at least Merrican knew that this was a move by the Navigator.

After all, they released the video of the Mars helicopter one by one, as long as they are not stupid, they can see that they are targeting the Navigator company.

Now the navigator is fighting back, it's normal.

But they suddenly found that they couldn't fight back against the Navigator's counterattack.

The Navigator showed signs for astronauts, but they just selected a new batch of astronauts last year, including those for the return to the moon and the Mars landing program.

It is impossible for them to recruit astronauts now.

Moreover, Navigator is a private company, and their astronaut selection can be open to the whole world.

Merriken Space is not going to work, and after the Lunar Grand Prix, they don't dare to start the "global" topic easily.

At the very least, they will definitely not let the Tianxia people be the astronauts of their country.

They believe that in turn, Tianxia will not let the Merriken be their astronauts.

The Navigator company is a private company, and they can recruit talents from all over the world as astronauts, just like ordinary employees.