NASA lost two of their finest Physician-Astronauts [3] (and 5 other crew) in 2003 on Columbia STS-107 mission. I've heard that if a physician can pass the (NAS

NASA lost two of their finest Physician-Astronauts [3] (and 5 other crew) in 2003 on Columbia STS-107 mission. I've heard that if a physician can pass the (NASA Class 2) medical and (Naval) Flight Officer qualifications, along with respectable science and engineering grades, their chance of selection as an astronaut is significantly "higher than average". They've also selected civilian physicians as astronauts. The Navy usually lets their flight surgeons fly in the back seat when practical, although most are not mission qualified NFOs. Dr (Capt.) David Brown was actually a mission qualified Naval Aviator, prior to astronaut selection. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Physician_astronauts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Physician_astronauts [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Brown [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark