15 October 2017
New criteria for astronaut selection in China could close the gap between ordinary people and space. As already announced beginning of June at the Global Space Exploration Conference GLEX2017, China will select a third batch of astronauts this year. It will give priority to engineering, with preference to flight engineers and load experts with Masters degrees or above. The standards for being an astronaut for the third batch is much lower than before in terms of both identity and physical condition, indicating that more ordinary people could have the opportunity to get selected.
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