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When NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) was about to pick its first ever astronauts for Project Mercury in 1958 , it decided that the sort of men most likely to survive a journey into space were those involved in dangerous activities like scuba diving, tightrope walking and mountain climbing .But President Dwight Eisenhower disagreed and demanded that the first astronauts should be fully-trained male pilots. Once the pilots were chosen to qualify as astronauts , they then went through a number of gruelling physical and psychological tests.
Today it's a different story. Women can be astronauts too. Trainee astronauts still have rigorous physical tests, but instead of a week of psychological tests, they have one and a half days.However, the questionnaires and interviews are much more searching . This is very important because, according to Dr Holland , a psychologist at NASA: , We know people can get depressed and anxious when they are in space so we won't select people who are inclined this way. Our job is to select people - men or women - with the right personality traits to make a good astronaut. We're not looking for ''super'' people. But they need to be emotionally stable , honest and highly committed.'
In addition to this, they need to be extremely sociable . ' If you meet an astronaut at a party, you will notice how good they are at social interaction , ' says British- born astronaut Helen Sharman. 'They get on with everyone.