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train-for-space-underwater — ES complete

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Title
How to train for space when you already live underwater
Summary
Neutral buoyancy comes naturally to some of us.
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train-for-space-underwater

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.

Translation (ES)
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Hay agencias que entrenan astronautas en piscinas.

Nosotros nacimos en la piscina. Ventaja: Sardine Aerospace.

El programa

Nuestro temario es corto, porque la evolución hizo casi todo:

  • Flotabilidad neutra: de serie.
  • Simulacros de soporte vital: branquias, redundantes, por partida doble.
  • Espacios confinados: dormimos cuatrocientos por lata, voluntariamente.

Lo difícil es lo contrario de lo habitual: la tripulación entrena la sequedad. La fase uno es una toalla húmeda. La fase dos, la foto de una playa. La fase tres, que solo la Comandante ha superado, es acercarse a un radiador.

La graduación es una vuelta al puerto en formación, seguida de absolutamente ningún chiste de peces en la cena, por orden.