{"id":171,"date":"2008-05-25T14:20:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/my-esa-astronaut-application\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T14:20:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:20:36","slug":"my-esa-astronaut-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/my-esa-astronaut-application\/","title":{"rendered":"My ESA Astronaut Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I went and got my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/crossfit-one-year-on\/\">private pilots license medical<\/a> certificate without any problem.  In fact the Doctor said <em><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>You have the blood pressure of a teenager.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> which was nice.  I checked the personal medical history I keep and my blood pressure reading of 114\/74 was indeed (with 1 exception), the lowest its been since I was 20!  Hurrah to Crossfit and the Zone diet, that&#8217;s all I can say.  I should say that my blood pressure has never been high anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Having received my certificate in the post now, I have successfully uploaded it to the European Space Agency <strong>ESA Astronaut Application website<\/strong>, had it reviewed and been allocated a login to their online application website.  Sweet.<\/p>\n<p>As all good applicants should, I&#8217;ve read through the entire application form before starting it and have been mulling over some of the questions before I begin.  Most of the questions are fairly typical re education and qualifications and scientific background etc.  It&#8217;s the last page that brings <strong>the most interesting questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are your hobbies and interests?<\/li>\n<li>Do you practice any sports regularly?<\/li>\n<li>How would you <strong>describe your manual skills?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Would you take up residence in Cologne, Germany?<\/li>\n<li>Would you be willing to <strong>live in Star City, Russia<\/strong> for an extended period?<\/li>\n<li>Would you be willing to live in Houston, US for an extended period?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you want to become an astronaut?<\/li>\n<li>In your opinion, what are the main tasks that should be performed by an astronaut?<\/li>\n<li>Write a candid description of yourself as a person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fair to say that all these questions were predictable, with the exception of the penultimate one.  It has a potentially very broad scope and is by far the most interesting question to answer.  Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I went and got my private pilots license medical certificate without any problem. In fact the Doctor said &#8220;You have the blood pressure of a teenager.&#8221; which was nice. I checked the personal medical history I keep and my blood pressure reading of 114\/74 was indeed (with 1 exception), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}