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bluegargantua) wrote2009-10-13 04:05 pm
bluegargantua) wrote2009-10-13 04:05 pm
"Neil Armstrong didn't have a double chin..."
Hey,
So here's a question for the space trivia fans out there.
We were discussing how I'll probably never go into space mostly because I wouldn't fit. Also, I probably weigh 1.5 astronauts.
But this got me thinking:
Who is the heaviest person who's ever been to space? Not counting all their life support gear, if you just took them all to a gym and weighed them, who'd be the heaviest?
My guess is that the heaviest astronaut is probably an American and he (almost certainly a he) went up during a shuttle flight. Before the shuttle, you pretty much had to be a test pilot and they exercised the hell out of you. When the shuttle can take up John Glenn, the entry requirements are a bit lower. I suspect that most Russian cosmonauts are still ex-military or in really good shape (I could totally be wrong) and astronauts from other countries are probably extra-fit because they need to look good to the folks at home.
I doubt this is a question we can readily answer without detailed review of mission health records, but there's someone we spent a little more on to shift their mass out of our gravity well.
later
Tom
So here's a question for the space trivia fans out there.
We were discussing how I'll probably never go into space mostly because I wouldn't fit. Also, I probably weigh 1.5 astronauts.
But this got me thinking:
Who is the heaviest person who's ever been to space? Not counting all their life support gear, if you just took them all to a gym and weighed them, who'd be the heaviest?
My guess is that the heaviest astronaut is probably an American and he (almost certainly a he) went up during a shuttle flight. Before the shuttle, you pretty much had to be a test pilot and they exercised the hell out of you. When the shuttle can take up John Glenn, the entry requirements are a bit lower. I suspect that most Russian cosmonauts are still ex-military or in really good shape (I could totally be wrong) and astronauts from other countries are probably extra-fit because they need to look good to the folks at home.
I doubt this is a question we can readily answer without detailed review of mission health records, but there's someone we spent a little more on to shift their mass out of our gravity well.
later
Tom