Labels:text | clothing | screenshot | man | person OCR: ASTRONAUT TRAINING LIVING IN SPACE IN THE EARLY DAYS of spaceflight, astronauts were selected from an elite group of military test pilots. Prospective astronauts were required to be DESERT ASTRONAUTS The USA's first astronauts, well educated, usually with a degree in science the Mercury 7, undertook or engineering. They also had to be extremely fit, desert training, to prepare and were subjected to thorough medical them for emergency landings. and psychological tests before being accepted for training. Astronauts had to withstand high accelerations during launch and reentry, so special machines were built to test their responses. The astronauts also contributed to the construction of their spacecraft alongside the designers and engineers who built them. SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE TRAVEL LIVING ...
