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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Alice.
And I'm Rob.
So Rob, what job did you want to do when you were little?
Oh, I really wanted to be an astronaut.
Be in orbit, watching the Earth from afar.
Wow, be in orbit.
It means be in space and following the Earth's curvature.
Well, the view must be nice from up there.
But the reality of becoming an astronaut is pretty hard.
And it's the subject of today's show.
Did you know that less than 600 people have been into space so far?
I'd like to have been one of them.
I know I have what it takes to be a space man.
Yes, there are many others like you who would like to go for this job, Rob.
And that's the quiz question for you today.
How many people have applied to join NASA's 2017 astronaut class?
Was it A, 800, B, 8000, or C, 18,000 people?
Mmm, 8,000 sounds like a lot already.