How to become an astronaut?
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NASA chooses its astronauts from an increasingly diverse pool of applicants that, 'looks like America". From thousands of applications from all over the world, approximately 100 men and women are chosen for an intensive astronaut candidate training program every two years.  "I cannot imagine a better career. I've done more than I could ever have imagined. I'm thankful that I've been at the right place at the right time," said Kenneth S. Reightler.\n\n(see NASA link for more info)
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Based on the fact it took one of the space probes 13 -14 years to get there, I'd have to say at least 15 years.  Think of it, round trip, you'd be 30 years older than when you left Earth.  Boy, they's have to offer some mighty sweet health benefits and a superbadass 401k before I'd consider it.
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To be an austranaut you should really talk to NASA (link provided might help)\n\nTo be a space researcher (scientist) you should go to Grad School in Physics and work for a group.
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Toyohiro Akiyama from Japan\n\nHere's a reference for you to check.\n\n"He was selected as a candidate to become an astronaut for a special TBS mission onboard the Mir Space Station in 1989. After undergoing training for spaceflight, he was selected as finalist and accomplished the mission from December 2 through 10, 1990, becoming the first Japanese astronaut and the first journalist astronaut in the world."\nhttp://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_pleasure_of_spaceflight.shtml
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Even my aim is the same.\nAt last i'm elated that ive found a friend from my own country.\nWhen i asked a counsellor, he advised me to take up:\n1.BSc,MSc and PhD in physics or\n2.B.Tech,M.Tech,PhD.\nand then Apply at Nasa's Web Site: www.nasa.gov\nBut its too early for me to decide as i'm only in Class 11 now.\nBest of luck to u.
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How to Become an Astronaut 101 \nLt. Col. Cady Coleman talks about what it's like to be an astronaut and how a passion for high school chemistry led her to become one. \n\nTo the average person, words and phrases like polymer synthesis and olefin metathesis reaction represent little more than good Scrabble scores. \n\nBut to Lt. Col. Catherine G. "Cady" Coleman, they mean so much more, and her interest in what these words mean has opened up to her, quite literally, a new universe. Using her passion and talent for chemistry and engineering, Coleman has made her way up the ranks from inspired student to research chemist to NASA astronaut. \n\n"The biggest challenge about being involved in the space program is the need to be able to be good at and know a lot about a lot of things." \nHer journey began in high school, under the tutelage of an especially enthusiastic chemistry teacher, Mrs. Ruth Opp. \n\n"She passed her excitement on to me," Coleman says. "I discovered later that many things she talked about I didn't really understand at the time, but she made me want to know more." \n\nColeman says her luck with wonderful teachers continued into college. While attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was fortunate enough to study under Dr. George Whitesides. \n\n"He was an incredible lecturer and scholar," she says. "I credit my teachers for giving me my enthusiasm for chemistry." \n\n \nCady Coleman handles a tiny mouse ear plant on Columbia's flight deck during the STS-93 shuttle mission. The plant experiment was part of the Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity. \nColeman continued her studies at the University of Massachusetts, where she earned a doctorate in polymer science and engineering. It is an interdisciplinary field and allowed Coleman to focus on the chemistry of making polymers and the integral processes used to discover why they do what they do. \n\nA polymer is a chain of molecules, which Coleman describes as being similar to a string of spaghetti. Commonly known polymers are plastics, hair and fibers, like cotton and silk. It is interesting to make chemical reactions using polymers because it involves the chemistry of a long chain of bead-like molecules rather than individual molecules that are free to move around and react in any direction, she says. \n\n"It is the processing that fascinates me," Coleman says. "It's like when you used to try and make fudge when you were a kid. Each time you would try to make it, you would put the same set of ingredients together. Yet, one time you get fudge that is all granular and crunchy, and the next it is a soupy mess that won't solidify. It all has to do with the processing -- how you put the ingredients together, the baking time, the way you mixed it up. I always wanted to know how the differences could happen." \n\nHer interest in processing contributed to her interest in the space program, although she says she did not always know she wanted to be an astronaut. \n\n"Being an astronaut wasn't really a common occupation when I was a kid," Coleman says. "I didn't think about it until I was in college, and Sally Ride came to speak at MIT. Listening to her, I thought wow, I want that job! I wanted adventure in my life." \n\n"This is where my training as a scientist really came in handy. …You need to go up there and do your best." \nColeman entered active duty in the Air Force upon her graduation from the University of Massachusetts. She began her commission working as a research chemist at the Materials Directorate of the Wright Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She continued her research on polymers and how they can be used in different computer applications, such as data storage. \n\nColeman was selected by NASA in March 1992 to become an astronaut. Her adventure really began in earnest then, and her kn
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Continue on a college track curriculum at your high school.  Take a lot of math, science, physics and computer/engineering classes if offered. Do as well as you can. Godo grades matter. Stay active and physically fit.\n\nI think that having a miltary background helps. Look for colleges and universities that offer ROTC programs. Consider Airforce or Navy. If you focus on the needs of space exploration in terms of course of study, and work hard then you can have a chance. Most astrobauts di come from the miltary. Those that do not are scientists thatare top of their field. Combining both will help. Major in physics, enginnering, biochemistry, work hard with an ROTC program, apply to flight school and try to get the skills you will need to apply.\n\nCheck out:\nhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/jobsinfo/astronaut.html\nhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/jobsinfo/astronaut101.html\nhttp://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/wannabe.html\nhttp://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/training.html\n\n\nWithout the miltary option, then go the hardcore science route. Look for graduate schools that focus on programs that will lead to future space exploration. MIT, CalTech, and the like. to date, ex Navy/Airforce, teachers, and scientists have made up the vast majority of space faring folks. You want to be a part of one of those groups, knowing that teachers are few and far between to be picked.\nBest of luck to ya.
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From your own hard work and effort. Noone here will do anyone's homework for them.\n\nMy suggestion - if it is a project on astronomy, quote a famous astronomer, like Percivel Lowell. If it is a project on the large nature of the universe, find a catchy quote by Einstein or Stephen Hawking. And if the project concerns the space program, you'll find wise words from any astronaut who has been up there and made awestruck comments about what it is like.
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Step 1   Become wealthy beyond you wildest dreams\nStep 2   Build a rocket ship\nStep 3   Learn to pilot said ship\nStep 4   Get all necessary permissions from air authorities to fly\nStep 5   BLAST OFF !\n\nThere you go \nI think it will take 5 steps then\nI hope this has helped\nbut you may need a few more to get back to tell you mates you made it, or how are we to believe you (you might want to bring back a rock or something)
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I've heard you have to have PHD to deal with urine samples on the shuttle.  Plus, you have to be in great shape, and be willing to work long and hard for a long time before you even have a chance.  More power too you!!!
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Basically have to apply for citizenship first, as well as taking a test.\n\nLet me see if I can find you a link..\n\n\nHere you go this link will answer all your friends questions.\n\nhttp://www.uscis.gov/graphics/citizenship/becoming.htm\n\nGood luck=)
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Study hard so you can become a NASA scientist
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Your gonna need to get the force right.  You need to orbit the earth a few times, then use the gravity to get to the moon.  then, you need to orbit around the moon a few times, then earth, and come down.  Otherwise, you'll become a new addition to our solar systems family!
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NASA is not a college.\nYou should go to a college or university and have a lot of math courses behind you before applying to NASA
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Yuri Gagarin, Astronaut \n\nBorn: 9 March 1934 \nBirthplace: Klushino, Russia \nDied: 27 March 1968 (airplane crash) \nBest Known As: The first human in space \nGagarin flew into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok I on 12 April 1961, becoming the first man in space. He orbited the Earth once (his capsule was controlled from the ground) before returning for a safe landing in the Soviet Union roughly 90 minutes later. The 1961 flight made him an international hero; he was awarded the Order of Lenin and made a deputy of the Soviet parliament, the Supreme Soviet. The flight was also considered a political victory for the Soviet Union; the United States didn't put a man into space until Alan Shepard's sub-orbital flight on 5 May 1961. Gagarin had graduated from the Soviet air force academy in 1957 and joined the cosmonaut corps in 1960. After his famous flight he remained in the cosmonaut corps and was killed while piloting an airplane on a training flight in 1968.\n\nOn his way to the launch pad in 1961, Gagarin stopped to empty his bladder. The act became a tradition with subsequent cosmonauts, who urinate on the back tire of the transport bus before their flights... Gagarin was preceded into space by a Russian dog, Laika.
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Become a what? Did you mean pilot?...
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You don't need to be a pilot, but it helps! Thanks for picking my answer as the best one for the other question! I love those web sites! As for the stuff to become a pilot, if you fill the astronaut requirements, you are set!