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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Astronaut requirements
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Date: Sat, 7-Jan-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  7 00:00:00 1984
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It interests me that all astronaut requirements ask for people in the
peak of physical health.   Now, while there is nothing wrong with good health,
I think they should deliberately send up people with average health.

(I am not referring to the astronauts but rather to the mission specialists)

All these space-sickness experiments being performed right now are going on
with prime physical specimens.  We need to find out what the effects of space
are on out-of-shape people, too.  Thus people should not be rejected from
the mission specialist program just because they don't run twenty miles a day.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304