NASA Begins Search for Teacher-Astronauts
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
NASA is putting out a vast help-wanted ad for teachers in space to inspire children in science and math.
The space agency started the program, via television and the Internet, to recruit more teachers as astronauts.
NASA plans to choose three to six teachers for its next astronaut class in 2004, and launch at least one of them a year beginning in late 2005 or early 2006.
The starting salary for educator-astronauts is between $51,000 and $95,000 a year.
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