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.

After the issue with ice on the seals for the o rings they have learnt to be cautious about the weather, obviously less of an issue in Florida in May than on a cold January morning but still they have to be careful; they've had lots of rain this week and thunderstorms were forecast for this afternoon (not unusual at all in Floridian afternoons).

@motorcyclenumptiness Helmet hair doesn't seem to be a major thing - check the pic at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body

Look at the clear blue sky after they scrubbed. Frustrating for them. I would love to be an astronaut though

Space food.

I could cope with pretty much anything else apart from eating canned/dried goods for months.

Claustrophobic but also very scared of space.

But very in awe of it too.

if i were to see the earth from space i would go completely mad. it would break my mind.

so, i could never be an astronaut because i am frightened of space.

For anybody still following, this press release just out - it was mainly the previously mentioned risk of lightning/static discharge that got them:

"SpaceX scrubbed its first launch attempt of the Demo-2 test flight due to unfavorable weather conditions around Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The constraints in violation included:

Do not launch within 10 nautical miles of the edge of a thunderstorm that is producing lightning within 30 minutes after the last lightning is observed.
Do not launch for 15 minutes if field mill instrument readings within five nautical miles of the launch pad exceed +/- 1,500 volts per meter, or +/- 1,000 volts per meter if specified criteria can be met.
Do not launch within 10 nautical miles of an attached thunderstorm anvil cloud, unless temperature and time-associated distance criteria can be met.
"We could see some raindrops on the windows and just figured whatever it was was too close to the launchpad at a time we needed it not to be," said Doug Hurley after the scrub. "So we appreciate that and understand everybody is a little bit bummed out. It is just part of the deal. Everybody was ready today and we appreciate that. and the ship looked great and we'll do it again, I think on Saturday."

When I was a child, I aspired to be an astronaut. I would not have been well-suited to the role.

Strengths:

• Science degree and medical training.
• Calm in emergencies.
• Thorough and conscientious.

Weaknesses:

• Mildly dyspraxic: limited spatial ability and minimal 3D perception.
• Overthink things: history of anxiety / depression.
• I'm OK with heights but being in space is not the same as being at the top of a tall building. There is nothing below you... forever. In fact, there is no below, it's all relative. No thank you.

Do not launch within 10 nautical miles of the edge of a thunderstorm that is producing lightning within 30 minutes after the last lightning is observed.

10 miles is the magic distance - if you are on a KSC tour they make you stay on the bus if there is thunder or lightning within 10 miles, outdoor swimming pools are closed and so on.

I have squeey knees. that makes extreme fitness impossible.

the position they sat in for hours doesn't look comfortable either.

the position they sat in for hours doesn't look comfortable either

There were rules at one stage about how long the crew ?(shuttle) could be in the seats on the ground - if they over ran that time limit it was grounds for a scrub.

OTOH Same seated position in space is meant to be easier to endure because of weightlessness. There has to be some truth in that because back in the early days of spaceflight the Gemini 5 crew were confined to their seats for 8 days, and the Gemini 7 crew for 14 days

I think my lack of aptitude in maths science and engineering might have gone against me. But I couldn’t stand the idea of the rejection so I didn’t pursue it.