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Requirements pilot astronaut question?

From the position of pilot astronaut in NASA space shuttle program, one of his least reqs 1000 hours as pilot in command time in jet aircraft. Does this mean that any type of flight, or must be a U.S. Army / Air Force / Blue marine related? Can a civilian become a pilot astronaut? Yes / No? wat? is that

View http://www.nasajobs.nasa.gov/astronauts/content/faq.htm the question "What flying experience is necessary?". He says: "The drivers have been selected for training military pilots.