I got second place – she says I was robbed, I should have gotten first place.”Īnderson doesn’t much remember that, but he does remember waking up in the middle of the night five years later to watch the Apollo 8 astronauts go around the back side of the moon. “She says I told her I wanted to be an astronaut in the July 4th parade in my hometown, and she wrapped me up in tinfoil and I marched in the parade as a tinfoil Mercury astronaut. “My mother says I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 4 or 5,” he said. But even if you’re not chosen, you’re encouraged to continue updating your application each year.Īnd Anderson was more than willing to follow the advice – after all, it was something he’d wanted for decades. And that handful is then whittled down through interviews and medical physicals to the few who will actually be invited to join the next astronaut class. Out of the thousands of applications the astronaut office receives, only a few dozen applicants are chosen to come to Houston for a personal interview when a class is being selected. The process of becoming an astronaut has a lot of steps, and the first is applying. Image above: Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson poses for a photo with a U.S. I simply submitted the application and then waited 15 years to get an interview.” “1983 was the first time that I was technically eligible to submit an astronaut application, because I had a master’s degree and one year of experience,” Anderson said. Now, after 24 years of anticipation, he’s in space. He applied to the astronaut program 15 times before even getting an interview, and then waited two more years before being selected in 1998. Clay Anderson could replace The Little Engine That Could as the mascot for persistence.

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The Palms by Clay Anderson