{"id":132673,"date":"2021-12-18T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-right-stuff"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T06:22:18","slug":"the-right-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-right-stuff","title":{"rendered":"The Right Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFWsYJ0_KMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronauts have one of the most competitive jobs in the world \u2014 18,300 people applied to be part of NASA\u2019s 2017 class of astronauts, and only 12 made the final cut. But the process of finding astronauts with \u201cthe right stuff\u201d has changed over time, and a lot of us Earthlings have the wrong idea about what NASA is looking for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of the public conception is that we choose super-geniuses or super-jocks or super-pilots,\u201d says Mike Barratt, a NASA astronaut and physician. \u201cI would say that the astronaut office right now is full of people who are comfortable to be with. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 we\u2019ve got a couple of super-geniuses, but the main [goal] is that we\u2019ve chosen well-rounded, well-behaved, professional people who are adaptable and resilient, and just someone you could see exploring a brand new world or locking yourself in a garage with for six months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts have one of the most competitive jobs in the world \u2014 18,300 people applied to be part of NASA\u2019s 2017 class of astronauts, and only 12 made the final cut. But the process of finding astronauts with \u201cthe right stuff\u201d has changed over time, and a lot of us Earthlings have the wrong idea [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}