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From: shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
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Subject: Re: A "spacey" ambition?
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In article <1531@accuvax.nwu.edu> phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:

   Remember: working directly for NASA means working for the gonvernment,
   which means taking and passing the civil servant exam (or at least, so
   I am led to believe).  Also, being a full-time astronaut means working
   for NASA, therefore....

I believe that the exam doesn't apply to technical jobs, but rather to
"general" positions--at any rate, NASA engineers and programmers don't
take it.

Actually, I think that the civil service exam is no longer used any where,
but I could be wrong.

Also, military astronauts don't work _for_ NASA, they work _at_ NASA.
--
Mary Shafer   shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov  ames!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
         NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
                    Of course I don't speak for NASA