Astronaut Job Description
Astronaut Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective astronaut job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included astronaut job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Astronaut Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Astronaut
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the astronaut job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Engineering, Science, Interpretation, Project Management, Design, Performance, Technical
Skills for Astronaut
Desired skills for astronaut include:
Desired experience for astronaut includes:
Astronaut Examples
Astronaut Job Description
- Represent HRP for HAB elements of the HSIA risk to higher level boards
- Assist with all facets of planning, moderating and reporting on research studies including proposal generation, experimental design, development of materials, data collection, analysis, and report writing for various research projects
- Support ongoing research projects (e.g., Hab Rubric, SmartHab design)
- Prepare proposals for research calls from NASA or external funding organizations, or develop directed research proposals to address the aims and add to the evidence base of the HFBP Element
- Represent HFBP in presenting research findings at various national and international meetings and working groups
- Disseminate results through submission of peer reviewed publications and/or technical reports on research efforts, and present findings at professional society meetings
- Use Python or other software languages to drive enhancements to operations
- Support mission preparations as the expert for crew systems
- Train for and operate Dragon missions
- Identify automation opportunities to fly each mission more simply than the last
- Ability to manage, coordinate, and execute support regarding operations to rescue/recover the astronauts and the crew module at Orion nominal end-of-mission and, if necessary, rescue astronauts in the event of a post-splashdown contingency
- Previous experience as a rated-officer (pilot or navigator) who achieved qualification as an EVALUATOR in either rotary- or fixed-wing rescue aircraft
- 10+ years of experience as a Para-rescue Specialist
- Ability to use a computer, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Experience as a Combat Rescue Officer
- Experience with coordinating personnel recovery or rescue planning with Personnel Recovery Coordination Cell, the Joint Personnel Recovery Center or Rescue Coordination Center
Astronaut Job Description
- Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems and operations
- Knowledge of basic orbital mechanics
- Strong written and verbal communication of technical information
- Ability to thrive under pressure and be resilient in the face of technical challenges
- Ability to decompose ambiguous tasks into tangible and measurable intermediate goals
- Insatiable hunger for continuous improvement and innovation
- Ability to leverage leadership and facilitator skills to collaborate with mission partners to develop schedules, goals, objectives, and measures of performance for development tests
- Experience with coordinating personnel recovery or rescue planning with a Personnel Recovery Coordination Cell, Joint Personnel Recovery Center, or Rescue Coordination Center
- 5+ years of experience in engineering test, integration, or flight operations for complex systems (industry internships and project teams qualify)
- Real time operations experience on a complex system that has high consequences in the event of failure (such as pilot, flight test engineer, spacecraft operator, high performance automotive)
- 2+ years of experience utilizing software tools to solve complex problems (Python, C++, JavaScript)
- 2+ years of experience independently owning large projects and leading interdisciplinary teams