Bad Breath Can End Space Dream
October 22, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Adventure
If you’re a Chinese astronaut and you have bad breath, you can say good-bye to your dream of going into space. They also don’t want you if you have body odor or a runny nose. The administrators say that this would make life too uncomfortable for the other astronauts in the cabin.
Other astronaut hopefuls were eliminated if they had scars. The experts said that the scar tissue could burst open in extreme conditions of space. I wonder if that’s true and if astronauts from other countries have the same restriction. And what kind of scar? I know very few people who don’t have any scar at all, the most common one being at the bottom of the chin. You know, the kind you get when you trip and fall flat on your face when you’re a kid. Not to mention all the forehead scars that most kids seem to get as well.
Chinese guidelines also don’t allow for astronauts to have a family history of serious illnesses – and they go back as far as *three* generations.
But, Chinese astronaut hopefuls, don’t get too excited even if you smell lily-fresh, have no scars, have an abnormally healthy family and you’ve passed all the tests and courses because – if you’re married and your wife doesn’t want you to go, you can’t. She has the final say.
Huh.
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