First step was typing a list of med prescriptions I need renewed and faxing it to the doctor.
Sitting there after faxing the doctor, I decided to start my tax returns. I dread that task. Not so much because I hate taxes because frankly I'm proud to pay them. Not only did I start them, I finished them and filed them as well. I'm always relieved when I get them done. My big problem is that I fear I will do something wrong and invite the intrusion of the government into my life.
A run-through of the news brought me to an article about how many people applied for up to 14 astronaut positions are available. Here's an original article from the Net.
Explosion
in astronaut applications stuns NASA, shatters record
FEBRUARY 21, 2016 BY DAN TAYLOR
Thousands
of people have applied for just 14 open spots.
NASA has gotten absolutely buried with applications for the
agency’s 14 open positions, easily setting a new record.
A total of 18,300 people submitted resumes for 14 open astronaut
positions between December 15 and February 18, according to an Engadget report.
The previous record was 8,000 people in 1978, and the new number
is almost three times the number of people who applied in the last hiring round
in 2012. Clearly, NASA’s bold vision for future manned missions to as far away
as Mars is resonating with people.
Part of it is due to the long stretch of time since NASA hired
astronauts last, but much of it is probably the recent successes in space —
flying past Pluto and Ceres, landing on a meteor, and other accomplishments —
as well as the success of films like Interstellar, The Martian,a nd Gravity.
NASA plans to award the astronaut job to between eight and 14 of
the 18,3000 applicants. NASA’s Selection Board will review the hopefuls and
interview a handful of them over the next year and a half, announcing the new
astronauts by 2017, after which they will start a rigorous two-year training
regimen.
So glad to see that others believe in heading to space.
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