The Business of Being a Test Pilot

"I got lucky when I put in my fourth application," he says. "When you look at the early days, with the right stuff and all the early classes that they had, they were all test pilots." The evolution of human space flight for the last 30 or 40 years is to go more towards the scientific folks,. He adds: There's a lot of opportunity for people without test pilot type experience in their backgroundFor some good reasons, we're not that easy to get along with sometimes. We typically have years of leadership behind us.