Nasa is also seeking to partner with private industry on transporting astronauts to the international space station. Robb Kulin, one of the new astronaut candidates, hopes to help Nasa out in building such links with private space companies. Kulin formerly worked at SpaceX – which designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft – as a senior manager for flight reliability. He said he hoped his time working in remote areas would also be valuable to Nasa. “Just working in remote areas in tight quarters.”But he added: “They want to teach us all to be jacks of all trades.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2017 09:56 UTC