Are there any physical, mental, or health-related medical conditions that could permanently exclude someone from going into space?
Do the criteria differ from one country's (government sponsored or private) program to another?
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For NASA, candidates must be able to pass the long-duration space flight physical. Height, blood pressure, and vision are three of the physical requirements included in this test. From their website:
Astronaut Requirements
Pilots
- Distant visual acuity: 20/100 or better uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 each eye.
- Blood pressure: 140/90 measured in a sitting position.
- Height between 62 and 75 inches.
Mission Specialists
- Distance visual acuity: 20/200 or better uncorrected, correctable to 20/20, each eye.
- Blood pressure: 140/90 measured in a sitting position.
- Height between 58.5 and 76 inches.
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1$\begingroup$ no requirements about teeth? $\endgroup$– user55Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 23:37
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3$\begingroup$ "correctable to 20/20 each eye" does that mean lazer eye surgery? and is one not allowed to wear glasses? $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 23:58
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10$\begingroup$ @trapo They eat out of tubes. Therefore, teeth are not required. Teeth are highly recommended, though, in case the food runs out and Velcro is the best source of nutrition. $\endgroup$– user12Commented Jul 17, 2013 at 17:31
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1$\begingroup$ Can g force ruin dental capsule at lift off? $\endgroup$– user55Commented Jul 17, 2013 at 18:33
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1$\begingroup$ @Undo look at youtube.com/watch?v=e11eImxr6lI $\endgroup$– user55Commented Jul 17, 2013 at 20:54
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The Roscosmos requirements for the professional cosmonaut candidates are published here. The google translation seems to be intelligible.
It includes the list of medical areas of inspection:
- internal organs inspection;
- neuropsychiatric inspection;
- surgical inspection;
- ophthalmological inspection;
- otorhinolaryngologic inspection;
- dental inspection;
- functional inspection;
- gynecological examination (for women);
- psychiatric inspection;
as well as the list of assays required (all kinds of blood tests, feces, urine, 12-lead ECG, etc etc etc).
And, in particular, the set of general anthropometric requirements.
Anthropometric data (the maximal allowed values):
- height (150-190 cm);
- height in the sitting position (80-99 cm);
- weight (50-90 kg);
- foot length (29.5 cm);
- shoulders (52 cm);
- distance between the armpits (45 cm);
- hip width in the sitting position (41 cm).
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$\begingroup$ The links are broken. Good thing you included a lot of useful information in the post. I'm not sure where to find the links, or else I'd propose an edit. $\endgroup$– mgareyCommented Apr 17, 2019 at 17:47
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$\begingroup$ I wonder if any short-torsoed person has ever met the height requirement but not the sitting height requirement. $\endgroup$– benCommented Apr 17, 2019 at 22:35
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$\begingroup$ @mgarey Indeed. The original page is gone, as of April 2019 the current medical requirements deocument is here: gctc.ru/media/files/Otbor_kosmonavtov/… . And the complete set of requirements seems to be collected on this page: gctc.ru/main.php?id=3736 $\endgroup$– user54Commented Apr 18, 2019 at 19:05
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$\begingroup$ I have updated the links. $\endgroup$– user54Commented Apr 18, 2019 at 19:07