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What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut” (opens in new tab)

Leroy Chiao at Literary Hub: The next morning at 8 AM, everyone in the interview group gathered in a conference room. There were twenty of us. It was the late ’80s, and the group was still dominated by white male military pilots. I was the only Asian there. One guy in my interview group was…

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