I’m not sure how soon I’ll be able to track down an astronaut for this blog (although of course I’m trying, because it’s one of the coolest jobs ever).
Fortunately, Ira Glass has managed to track an astronaut down as part of a wonderful episode of “This American Life” entitled:
In addition to the astronaut interview, the episode also contains four other stories relating to very unusual job situations. Give it a listen!
MY COOL JOB 
This is too poignant to be amusing really … but under other circumstances, I might have been able to help in your search.
However, perhaps an excuse to spread the word about a good cause?
On the other hand, our events manager recently quit to go work for this woman, who just got married to thisastronaut. So maybe I could pull a few strings for you? 🙂
Being an astronaut looks like a lot of fun in that picture!
One of the American astronauts, I think it was John Glenn, described his job as “hours of boredom punctuated by seconds of sheer terror” but I’m sure he liked the job really.
Your blog is very interesting. Who was it that said, “I enjoy work, it fascinates me, I could sit and look at it for hours?”
Cool!!! I’ve always wanted to see the earth from space, or float around with no gravity. It seems like a very cool job! Although being in space all alone is kind of a scary thought, I would love to learn more about being an astronaut!