Facts that will RUIN your dream of becoming an Astronaut

 creepy reasons why you should

 never become an astronaut

 one in five adults in the united states say that they initially wanted to be an astronaut when they were a kid while becoming an astronaut might sound like a cool dream job for many people it comes with a ridiculous number of drawbacks the training first things first the training required to become an astronaut is nothing short of insane even professional athletes do not have to go through such rigorous training for their professions what's worse is that even though the training is tough it's nothing compared to the challenges you would face in real life space agencies like nasa want to make sure only the fittest both physically and mentally are allowed to go into space as letting anyone get into a spacecraft for months at a time would be simply disastrous for you to be even considered for nasa's astronaut program you would require at least a bachelor's degree in engineering biological science physical science computer science or mathematics in most cases nasa will only consider those applicants who have a bachelor's degree in multiple fields aside from that you will also require at least three years or about 1 000 hours of professional flying experience when you consider the number of people who have a degree in these fields on top of having a ridiculous amount of flying experience as well you'll know that 99.9 percent of you are automatically disqualified from becoming an astronaut already but what about those who actually do make it to nasa they don't simply get accepted and then launched off into space they still require rigorous training that can sometimes last years at a time firstly they'll need to pass a physical test this is similar to physical tests in the military and this is considered the easiest part of the whole process there will also be numerous medical tests and mental evaluations as even the sanest people can go insane when confronted with space travel after they pass all these tests the few that remain will start their astronaut education and physical training this will consist of them learning practically everything about flying a spacecraft

 and all the jargon and code words associated with it this is not like studying for a math test this is about as complicated as education can be they will also need to learn advanced medicine piloting robotics among other things during the physical training the candidates will be almost tortured because that's what it's like being on a spacecraft according to autonomic neuroscience 60 to 80 percent of the trainees will go through many serious illnesses like polar space motion sickness cold sweating vomiting and anorexia only after completing these grueling tasks for an insane amount of time will nasa permit astronauts to leave the earth this isn't just limited to nasa as space training like this is universal whether it's in the u.s canada the eu or russia life in space life in space is often glamorized in movies but it's nothing like that in real life

 oftentimes actual astronauts have always pointed out how the media gets so much wrong about life in space and how tough it actually is once you've made it through the tough training and are finally in space things are only going to get worse the first major challenge is food food is something we all need even astronauts but we often take for granted all the delicious treats we have here on earth and to the astronauts envy they don't have access to any of it while food choices for astronauts have gotten better in recent years it's still pretty dull the food won't make you throw up but spending months in space and eating nothing but some random powdered nutritional food is sure to make anyone give up many astronauts have said the first thing they looked forward to after returning to the earth was a nice hot meal at a restaurant aside from food life in space can be pretty uncomfortable as well some astronauts at the international space station have to be constrained with belts or else their limbs would be all up in the air not only that but even something as basic as going to the bathroom in space is another challenge you're pretty much forced to pee inside a tube located in the toilet oh it's too bad we can't demonstrate this on tv which then gets transformed into

 potable water for the astronauts

 as for number two you pretty much have to do it inside of a bag and it can get really messy the bag is then put into a solid waste container which can sometimes be overfilled depending on the number of astronauts there cleaning yourself up in weightlessness is also quite uncomfortable but nothing compared to what we mentioned earlier overall these are just some of the things that we do every day on earth and the fact that these are so challenging in space really shows how hard it is to be an astronaut difficulties described by astronauts over the past few decades over a

 thousand people have been sent to space

 and many of them have come back with reports about their life outside the earth some of the things many astronauts themselves reported as most difficult include weightlessness getting adjusted to weightlessness is extremely difficult and while nasa has tried their best to train the astronauts for weightlessness here on earth experiencing the real thing is on a new level of difficulty it's common to feel extremely nauseous for days at a time as astronauts like ron garan have reported another thing reported by garan was the difficulty he and many other astronauts had in terms of keeping track of time in space you don't follow the same day night cycle that we do on earth and that can be extremely confusing as days can pass by without any change in the environment sometimes hours can feel like days it's all simply too strange for the human mind to comprehend another thing to consider is that these astronauts no matter how much training they go to are still human and still feel homesick or emotional from time to time but in space they can't cry if they do their tears will form a messy blob around their eyes not comfortable however uncomfortable as that might be it's nothing compared to how uncomfortable a runny nose in space is the runny part is misleading since your nasal fluids will form into a sticky blob and stay within your nose and there's no gravity to make them drop space tourism may become a very real thing in the coming future and billions of dollars are being spent to promote space tourism by companies like spacex but for those looking for comfort it's clear that life in space is a far cry from comfortable the changes one of the most interesting

 things about space flight is how it can

 completely change a person's body scientists have carefully examined numerous astronauts before and after they went into space and almost all of them came back with striking changes

 researchers found out that after about in space astronauts were producing far fewer red blood cells than they previously were which would bring about some serious health complications astronauts also often come back to the earth facing balanced disorders due to spending such a significant time in weightlessness weaker eyesight has also been reported with some astronauts in recent decades which is also concerning but the worst of all is that space flight very negatively affects the immune system space flight might also alter human dna nasa conducted an experiment where one identical twin spent a year in space while the other spent a year on the earth while the twins previously had identical dna after the space flight their dnas were considerably different from one another which was how nasa was able to prove this theory space flight might also increase the risk of blood clotting among various other concerning side effects these side effects may be the biggest challenge humans have when it comes to amend mars mission as that will probably be the longest human space flight in history the risk of death while officially the death rate of space flight is lower than you think it's very hard to calculate the risk you'd be taking when you get on a spacecraft any spacecraft whether it's from nasa or spacex has a very high risk of simply failing malfunctioning or having something go wrong there have been dozens of humans who have died in space before including the tragic soyuz 11 disaster when three soviet cosmonauts were killed after a construction error caused the spacecraft to fail another notable incident is when seven american and israeli astronauts were killed in 2003 during the space shuttle columbia disaster if you enjoyed this article make sure to leave it a like and subscribe to our channel we'll see you in the next one