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Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE
Most of them are USAF....
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Simply not true.
I ran the Navy's selection board for astronauts for two years...each service guards the number of available slots religiously. You also have to divide the slots from mission specialists, payload folks, pilots, etc.
With a flight test background and as a former Navy Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer, I know a bunch of them. All smart as three smart things...with the mission specialists it can get to be a common sense filter.