Maxim Kharlamov, head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC), said that people with humanitarian training need to be retrained to become cosmonauts. It has been reported DEA News.
According to him, the humanities will still need technical education, and there is no time to retrain them.
“The professional requirements that apply to a test cosmonaut … can be met by someone who has initially received basic systems training in this profession,” Kharlamov said.
He added that during the selection of applicants, the commission primarily selects candidates with certain characteristics close to the astronaut profession. Preference is given to candidates with training in computer science, electronics and radio engineering, photonics and instrumentation, electrical and thermal power engineering, nuclear energy, mechanical engineering.
Prior to that, Roscosmos Corporation announced about the beginning of the fourth open recruitment for cosmonaut troops.
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