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NASA trains astronauts in swimming pools.
We were born in the pool. Advantage: Sardine Aerospace.
The programme
Our syllabus is short, because evolution did most of it:
- Neutral buoyancy: pre-installed.
- Life support drills: gills, redundant, twice.
- Confined quarters: we sleep four hundred to a tin, voluntarily.
The hard part is the opposite of the usual: our crew must train for dryness. Phase one is a damp towel. Phase two is a photograph of a beach. Phase three, which only the Commander has passed, is standing near a radiator.
Graduation is a lap of the harbour in formation, followed by absolutely no fish jokes at dinner, by order.
Translations
| Language | State | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PT-PT | complete | Treinar para o espaço quando já se vive debaixo de água | Edit translation |
| ES | complete | Entrenar para el espacio cuando ya vives bajo el agua | Edit translation |
| FR | complete | S'entraîner pour l'espace quand on vit déjà sous l'eau | Edit translation |
| DE | complete | Fürs All trainieren, wenn man schon unter Wasser lebt | Edit translation |