The European Space Agency is advertising in the national press for.....ASTRONAUTS. The advert lists no formal qualifications but does require applicants to be highly motivated, flexible, emotionally stable(?) and gregarious. It also welcomes applications from women, but obviously not of child bearing age or menopausal as these two states completely negate the emotionally stable bit.
BoggartBlog has managed to get hold of a supporting letter from one of the aspiring candidates.

I am a brite artikulate hi-ly motivated person who can in spyer my workmates. and who all ways gives the best of my self at skool I got lots of GCSE's' two meny two cownt reeally and some B TECs and. some NVcuse i got all the proper 1s that the guvurnment wont you to get and I got some uvvers two so i think i would be good at being an
astronaut in the past i have worked in space ecsplorashun my first job was captin of Fireball XL6 this was a bit of a let down cos we often had trubble getting it lornched but it wasn't, my fault my frend steve zodiac did orlrite in the uvver rocket XL5 from their i was recrooted by mRtracey to pielot Thunderbird3 and man the spacestayshun )tb5( wen his boys cudnt do it like wen thay was on hollyday
or purly this gayv me ecsspeeryns of wurking wiv aMerIcans and from they,re i joynd the USS Enterprize wurking wiv captinslog and missterspok on a 5 yr misshon two seek owt nu life and nu sivillizashuns and two fined the final frunt ear that captinslog wos all ways on abowt then i whent two wurk 4 the mpraw he was bilding a big nu space ship corld the deaf star it was daft vaders i'dea and they needed sum one to fly it and they herd how gud i was and they sent a robot to fined me wiv a messaje from daft and the mpraw and a prinses and look sky warker but han so low wos gelus and he tryd to stop us and thair wos a big fite and the deaf star got brok and so that is y i am appliing to work for u.