Too tall
NASA astronaut Scott Parazinsky, has been dropped from cosmonaut training at Russia's Star City because, at 1.87m, he is too tall to fit safely into a Soyuz spacecraft in which, in an emergency, he would have to ride during his planned 143-day flight aboard the Mir 1, after launch on ...
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