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During the Space Shuttle era they had a class of astronauts called payload specialists. They were chosen because they were the subject experts for whatever payload they were sending up like an experiments package or a satellite to be released. They normally flew just once on that specific mission.
They weren't trained to fly the Shuttle like a career astronaut, but they had assigned responsibilities to carry out together with the career astronauts in an emergency.
The drillers I've met working offshore are pretty on top of their game especially when we're drilling complex wells with complex tools. They won't have a degree and can be quite brash, but I won't say they're dumb. They're just like other blue collar skilled workers like machinists or welders.
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That's why there's a drilling engineer in the latest class of NASA astronauts :)