ASTRONAUT TRAINING
THE ULTIMATE LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Astronauts are some of the most skilled and best trained people on Earth (and off Earth). Becoming an astronaut takes years of training in a variety of skills. As an astronaut you have to keep your head cold during stressful situations, show excellent problem solving skills, be a capable crisis manager, really good communicator and an efficient leader and team player at the same time. All skills that are in high demand on the job market as well. Your astronaut training program at S.A.L.T. will not only prepare you for a career in the space industry but for your success in any career and life in general. The training is provided through a combination of field training expeditions in some of the most remote and challenging places on planet Earth as well as online courses curated by some of the leading experts in their respective fields.
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM NASA?
In our training we focus on leadership training, expeditionary skills and development of personal and interpersonal skills. These are usually the skills that make the difference between those who are selected into an astronaut program and those who are not, as there are thousands of candidates with the right technical background. Although our training includes many of the same elements and exercises there is a difference in our training, primarily because the training that NASA offers is very technical and mission specific. Once you actually go to space you will always have to get mission specific vehicle training.
Our training is focused on skills for future missions which go further into space, the Moon and eventually Mars. On those missions the crews are more independent and have to rely more on themselves than the Mission Control on Earth. That means the skills needed are more expedition type of skills.
ASTRONAUT SKILLS
Adaptability, creative problem solving, crisis management and of course team building skills. Nobody wants to be stuck on the Moon with a person that only thinks about himself. This is why our training is focused on expedition based training. We find it important to test your skills in action and not just learning about them in books or online, although that can be a good start. Like at NASA a lot of the training is through scenarios, simulations and astronaut training expeditions.
One of the things we can NOT train for on Earth is different types of gravitational environments on the Moon and Mars. However adaptability can be trained which is another reason for the choice of alien environments and remote locations for our expeditions. We take people out of their comfort zone and into challenging environments to train the adaptability skills needed to enter an unknown World.