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We are used to thinking that for flights outside the Earth it is necessary to have perfect health. Roscosmos and NASA do not deny this, recruiting exclusively sturdy and strong astronauts people without any disease.
However, is a person really obliged not to have absolutely no physical flaws to be able to fly into space? As it turned out, no. Texas Medical University staff claim that even individuals suffering from astronauts can become from diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
Of course, any space agency in the selection of astronauts He will give preference to people who do, but this does not mean at all that chances of a person without perfect health to leave our planet are absent. Here poverty rather equates them to zero, since with the development of commercial flights, a large number of rich people who want to fly into space. And, as you might guess, not every one of them boasts exemplary physical indicators. Private space astrocarriers, of course, do not want to lose a single wealthy client, so in orbit several dozen tourists who have never taken would be in “Roskosmos” or NASA for health reasons.
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In the United States, the prevalence problem is known to be various ailments is especially acute. Texas scientists examined a hundred of their compatriots with the average health indicators and found that sixty-seven experimental have common medical problems like overweight, sugar diabetes, high blood pressure, lung diseases, and like that. However, of these sixty seven people, fifty five without any problems moved the simulated space flight in a special rotating module. This suggests that they, probably would be able to carry out a real flight on orbit.
Given that the average Russian is obviously has better health than the average American, it can be assumed that a much larger number of inhabitants of our countries could go into space.
True, the cosmos itself is fraught with riddles that in no way commensurate with human health …
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