NASA Recruiting: Over 6,000 People want to be Astronauts

IBTimes Sunday 5th February, 2012

NASA is currently recruiting to train astronauts for its 2013 batch. Incidentally, this number (6,372 to be exact) is the largest since 1978, when they received more than 8,000 eager applications.

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