I could never be an astronaut because...

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2 hours. two long hours. between sitting down in the capsule and launch - yawn

watching the spacex launch. keeping fingers crossed that all goes well.

Launch abort sequence started. 😞

Awww, I’m gutted! They must be so disappointed!

So disappointing. Back on Saturday for another attempt.

Huh? What sort of weather do you need to go straight up?

Disappointing.

Every time I peel potatoes that have started to sprout I think of the Martian and feel panic at the thought of running out of food whilst left behind alone on another planet. I also feel panic at the thought of the rest of the crew who add 18m on to their time in space to go back and pick him up and how bored they must be. I realise it is fiction honestly!

@LaurieFairyCake I know, right! What sort of rocket can’t go through clouds? It’s going into space and it can’t go through some water vapour??

I’m so invested now!!

I have mental health issues, including a history of psychosis. Looking back at the earth, feeling infinity beyond me, I would think myself to into a philosophical corner I could never get out of. Put simply I would go mad.
Oh I there is no way on earth, or outer space, I could go 8hrs without a wee. None.

Because I’m too claustrophobic

No wee for 8 hours?

Can you imagine coping with a UTI in space?

Huh? What sort of weather do you need to go straight up?

Well.. there's the issue of what weather they might end up descending into if they have to abort during the ascent and that means weather has to OK over thousands of square miles, and ever since Apollo 12 was very nearly lost due to a lightning strike (or two) on launch in 1969 NASA has been very sensitive about launching flights if there's any chance at all of lightning/static discharge anywhere in the vicinity of the launch area (that's tied in with things called "field mills" that were mentioned during some of the conversations that were broadcast)

I have an actual reoccurring nightmare that I will be forced to go into space. I found it INCREDIBLY
hard to watch the film Gravity. It feels so real to me.
My husband thinks I’m bonkers

Yes, they were talking about lightning, that sounds like a no-no.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_mill

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aaron

www.livescience.com/apollo-12-lightning-launch.html

I'm gutted, but at least we get the excitement all over again!

And yes I could never be an astronaut because I don't like flying, fast things, enclosed spaces and having to directionally control my wee. But hats off to those who do this. I saw Helen Sharman talk last summer. Absolutely fascinating and always the first British Astronaut in space...

I'd never get my boobs in that suit. It's the only thing that's stopping me...

Because I'm crap with numbers. I would love to be a space explorer, but apparently you have to be able to add.

Cheers notimagain 👍🏻🍰

Helmet hair

I have been watching the NASA thing with one eye and Apollo 13 the other...

KTD27 I have that nightmare too!

Ever since I was a child I've had a horror of being stapped in to a shuttle/rocket thing, to the point where I can't even contemplate those simulator cinema things they have at museums and theme parks.

Huh? What sort of weather do you need to go straight up?

not too windy. they need to have a safe (and large) landing zone for the rocket debris and the escape pod. if too windy (sea) rescue can be difficult and debris might fall where it shouldn't

I went to the National Space Centre in Leicester and my reaction times are apparently sub par thus rendering me incapable of being an astronaut.

I thought I knew most of my weaknesses but throw another one in there why dontcha!!

I couldn't be an astronaut because I still have my appendix.
According to the surgeon when ds had his out anyway.