U.S. Astronaut Corps To Shrink, Serve New Missions

Credit: NASA
Wanted: New astronauts. Must like tight spaces, long trips, commercial travel, foreign languages. Limited opportunities available. If NASA were to take out a classified advertisement, it might read something like that, now that the last space shuttle mission, STS-135, is heralding the end of an era...

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