Timeline for Why was there a minimum height for astronauts?
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| Oct 16, 2023 at 20:58 | comment | added | user71659 | @Lodinn For large aircraft, including the Shuttle, the pilot's eyes must be located in a small box for proper visual references. This is especially important for optical guidance systems, including the PAPI system and the HUDs the Shuttle used. For a pilot, the vision dictates the seating position, and flight controls are then adjusted to match. | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 16:00 | comment | added | Organic Marble | @CitizenRon thanks! I guess you're taking issue with my use of the word "sewed"? oops. You're right, it was Velcro. | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 15:53 | comment | added | CitizenRon | @OrganicMarble Just a small detail, but work uniforms like this will generally have one side of a Velcro fastener patch sewn onto the uniform where the nametag goes. The nametag has the complementary side attached to the back of it to allow one to quickly and easily change the nametag without tailoring when one needs a new work uniform. It also allows for jokes or pranks based around nametag contents to easily happen. | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 13:54 | comment | added | jaskij | @OrganicMarble I did not think of that, but at least on my PC the photo is so small when displaying here on SE that I didn't realize the tags were there. When opening the photo in a separate tab and zooming in they are visible and readable though. | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 13:06 | comment | added | Organic Marble | @jaskij they literally have nametags sewed on their clothes. You will see that Scott is labeled "Too Tall" and Wendy "Too Short". | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 12:01 | comment | added | SirHawrk | @Neil_UK In the devloped world it is actually the other way around. Poverty and obesity are strongly correlated: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/1/e019862 | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 11:18 | comment | added | Neil_UK | @SirHawrk The tube was 3 metres long with open ends, so it was more about girth than height. People that can't afford to eat are generally thinner than people who can. | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 11:01 | comment | added | SirHawrk | Are taller people on average richer or why do you think it has to do with their wealth @Neil_UK? | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 8:43 | comment | added | jaskij | Could you label who is who in the photo? Lawrence can be guessed by her height, but it's hard to tell who is Wolf and who is Parazynski without clicking on external links. | |
| Jan 13, 2023 at 7:57 | comment | added | Lodinn | @hobbs Valid, but I would imagine that reaching controls is a bigger issue than seeing out the windows. A knob being just 5cm out of your reach becomes very, very problematic when you are strapped to your chair at 3g. | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 22:48 | comment | added | hobbs | Plus the need for things like being able to see out the windows (to a prescribed field of view) while in the seat, which I think is why there's a narrower range for pilots. | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 21:33 | comment | added | davidbak | ... presumably in the direction that makes them not fit in the tube ... | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 20:40 | comment | added | mustaccio | @Neil_UK re: "rather bigger than the 95 percentile". Bigger in what dimension, if I might ask? | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 15:53 | comment | added | Neil_UK | I was quite amused when I worked in NMR imaging (now known as MRI), and the machine I was working on was designed to the same 5-95% of the US adult population. It turned out that many more than 5% of patients could not fit in the tube, as the people who could afford to pay for an MRI formed a very skewed subset of the adult population who were rather bigger than the 95 percentile. Ooops! | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 9:05 | vote | accept | The Rocket fan | ||
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| Jan 11, 2023 at 15:08 | history | answered | Organic Marble | CC BY-SA 4.0 |