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- From: kcarroll@zoo.toronto.edu (Kieran A. Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Visual acuity for MS
- Message-ID: <Brr7K9.BGn@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:31:20 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.215326.9130@news.larc.nasa.gov> <BrIoI2.Fz3@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <BrIoI2.Fz3@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul16.215326.9130@news.larc.nasa.gov> claudio@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov (Claudio Egalon) writes:
- >>Most of the literature that I have read about the visual acuity
- >>requirements for Missions Specialists, MS, says that the applicant
- >>must have a 20/100 uncorreted *however* ...
- >
- >The exact number is probably pretty much irrelevant. You'd have to be
- >awfully good to overcome a handicap like poor vision....
-
- Good point. One practical use of such a requirement, however, might
- be to provide a guideline for deciding when an active astronaut
- should retire. A number of the astronauts wear glasses on-orbit;
- likely many of them due to deteriorating eye-sight as they grow
- older. Even if all new-hires had 20-20 uncorrected vision, once they're
- in their 40's it'd start getting worse. The requirement may apply
- less to new-hires than to old hands.
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- Kieran A. Carroll @ U of Toronto Aerospace Institute
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