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Topic: Tallest astronaut or cosmonaut to fly in space?
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webbrass
Member Posts: 72
From: Charlottesville, Virginia
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 06-03-2004 09:17 AM
   
My boss and I attended an excellent talk by Kathy Thornton the other day and it started a conversation about how we all had dreamed of being astronauts as kids. He said the factor that limited him was height. He's 6' 6". That brought up the question who was/is the tallest astronaut and what is the height limit on astronauts today. Anyone know? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-03-2004 09:39 AM
Current candidate requirements are as follows:Pilots - between 64 and 76 inches
Mission Specialists - between 58.5 and 76 inches As for learning who is/was the tallest, NASA used to provide a physical description (including height) with their astronaut biographies, but apparently no longer. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-03-2004 10:35 AM
Well, how tall is Scott "Too Tall" Parazynski?  |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 06-03-2004 12:10 PM
At one time it was "Ox" Van Hofften (41C,51I) at 6 foot something. For current I don't know. I think Anna Fisher is still the smallest. |
NasaFrk
Member Posts: 56
From: Winter Park,FL
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-03-2004 07:12 PM
I would have guessed that Nancy Currie was one of the shortest (height limited) astronauts. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-03-2004 11:26 PM
quote:
Originally posted by NasaFrk:
I would have guessed that Nancy Currie was one of the shortest (height limited) astronauts.
Or Parazynski's counterpart, "Too Short" Lawrence (Wendy Lawrence). And yes, they did have those monikers on their name tags.... |
Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-16-2004 04:32 PM
How long/short is Steve Smith? I guess he is one of the taller guys within the US astronaut corps. |
Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 06-09-2013 06:24 PM
How tall is ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano? |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 06-09-2013 08:18 PM
I think Jim Wetherbee is right at 6'4". |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 06-09-2013 09:47 PM
Scott Altman is pretty tall; don't know his exact height. |
chappy
Member Posts: 231
From: Cardiff, S. Wales, UK
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 06-10-2013 12:35 AM
Jeffery Hoffman is tall too... |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 06-10-2013 02:09 AM
Joe Allen was quite small. There, somewhere, is a video of him being extracted from one of the storage lockers on the shuttle. |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 1031
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 06-10-2013 04:48 AM
He was not really pulled from the locker - he was situated behind the entire row of lockers and by positioning the camera on the other end, it was made to look that way. |
tncmaxq
Member Posts: 287
From: New Haven, CT USA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 06-10-2013 05:31 AM
I read that Rick Hieb was near the limit at 6'3. I met him once and he was a bit taller than I am at 6'1. |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 06-10-2013 12:30 PM
Scott Parazynski, I guess. |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 06-10-2013 12:33 PM
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Originally posted by mach3valkyrie:
Scott Altman is pretty tall; don't know his exact height.
Scott Altman was 6 ft. 4 inches according to an old NASA biography. |
MarylandSpace
Member Posts: 1337
From:
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 06-10-2013 07:22 PM
Jon McBride's name badge used to read "Big Jon." |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 06-11-2013 12:44 PM
But with 6 feet 2 inches not the tallest. Scott Parazynski has also 6 feet 2 inches. |
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