Fifty years on...

[Torplexed]

Didn't American astronaut Michael Foale have to stay alone in the Mir space station or the attached Soyuz capsule for his safety while the Russians outside in their space suits did repairs to it's exterior?

[razark]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Didn't American astronaut Michael Foale have to stay alone in the Mir space station or the attached Soyuz capsule for his safety while the Russians outside in their space suits did repairs to it's exterior?

Not quite:

The two Russian cosmonauts of Mir 23, Vasily Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Lazutkin, conducted an intravehicular activity (IVA) to inspect the collision damage from the interior of the space station. During Mir 24, Foale and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev conducted a six-hour EVA in the Russian Orlan spacesuit to inspect exterior damage to the station's Spektr module.

[Platapus]

Here is a bit of trivia about Alan Shepard.

When he went up in space, Alan had some sensors placed at various places on his body. To mark where the sensors were to be placed, for some reason it was decided to tattoo marks on Alan's body.

For the rest of his life, he had these permanent tattoos of the sensor location on his body.

I guess NASA did not have any magic markers.

It is commonly understood that the reason that Chuck Yeager could not be an astronaut was because he did not have a college degree.

Which of the original seven Mercury pilots did not have a college degree but still went into space?

[sharkbit]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Which of the original seven Mercury pilots did not have a college degree but still went into space?

My guess-Gus Grissom

[Platapus]

Nope

Glenn and Carpenter did not have college degrees when they were selected to fly nor did they have their degree by the time of their first flight.

Both attended college. Carpenter was one class short of his degree when he flew Aurora-7. After his flight, the University decided that his experiences made up for the flight and he was granted his degree. It could be said that Carpenter was the only astronaut to earn his degree in space!!

[razark]

Originally Posted by Platapus

It is commonly understood that the reason that Chuck Yeager could not be an astronaut was because he did not have a college degree.

Which of the original seven Mercury pilots did not have a college degree but still went into space?

Dang it... missed it by minutes.

John Glenn?

In April 1959, despite the fact that Glenn had not earned the required college degree, he was assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as one of the original group of seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury.

Or Scott Carpenter?

He returned to Boulder in November 1945 to study aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. At the end of his senior year, he missed the final examination in heat transfer, leaving him one requirement short of a degree. After his Mercury flight, the university granted him the degree on grounds that, "His subsequent training as an Astronaut has more than made up for the deficiency in the subject of heat transfer."

[Platapus]

You're a wiener!

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Platapus

You're a wiener!

A sausage? "wiener"

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Vendor

A sausage? "wiener"

A big wiener!