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Old 06-02-2016, 08:15 AM   #7
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Default Re: How many points for 'realistic' space explorers?

NASA astronauts are... pretty impressive people. They're sort of like the high-point special forces characters in that they are always training to maintain high skill levels. So somewhere around 250-300 points seems reasonable.

One of my classmates from medical school graduated from the astronaut program a year ago. So he did four years at West Point, four years of medical school, a three year residency, served a few years in special operations medicine (including Ranger School, HALO, Combat Diver, and Command and General Staff College) and then to top it all off the astronaut candidate program is two years. The candidate program. After that they start real training.

Granted he's a doctor so it looks like a lot of schooling, but when you read the other bios they're just as packed. The pilots tend to be aeronautical engineers, the mission specialists are frighteningly competent scientists, etc., and then they are all intensively cross-trained.

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