{"id":185,"date":"2008-06-27T03:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T03:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/friday-fun-8413-esa-astronaunt-applicants\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T20:38:00","slug":"friday-fun-8413-esa-astronaunt-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/friday-fun-8413-esa-astronaunt-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun – 8413 ESA Astronaunt Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being busy making all the Olympic weightlifting videos<\/a> meant that I am a bit late posting about the developments with week with NASA and ESA. So I thought I’d roll it into a Friday Fun post too. So here’s a nice spot the difference competition, courtesy of NASA.<\/p>\n

Whilst looking innocuous, this is one of the most monumental photographs in the history of man kinds space program<\/strong>. It’s the picture of the Phoenix space craft on Mars, digging in the dirt and finding ice just beneath the surface. This discovery is what is going to make a Martian Base possible.<\/p>\n

It’s also a great spot the difference picture. Can you see the rocks of ice that have evaporated in the 2nd pic?<\/p>\n\n

In other astronauty news, ESA has revealed<\/a> that far from the 50,000 suspected applicants only 8,413 people from across the whole of Europe submitted an ESA Astronaut Application<\/a>. The list includes just 822 people from the UK, 697 men and 167 women.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The quick amongst you will have spotted that 697 + 167 does not = 822! That’s because included in the break down figures are 42 people who indicated this country as their 2nd citizenship.<\/p>\n

Either way, that’s a lot of application forms for them to trawl through. The applicants successfully making the next stage get to attend psychological testing<\/strong>, defined as:<\/p>\n

Those tests aim to identify the psychological and technical skills of the applicants, who will be tested in different fields including visual memory and psychomotor aptitude.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds like fun! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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