On 2005-06-29, Alex Terrell wrote:

What *have* you been drinking? The Apollo CM/LM tunnel was about 75cm in
diameter, and was passable to a suited astronaut (as witness Dave Scott's
stand-up EVA in the LM docking hatch on Apollo 15).

Perhaps NASA now has a representative recruitment policy - Astronauts
need to reflect today's population, not the population of 35 years ago.
So supersize that airlock!

Heh. On a slightly more serious note, "95th percentile" gets kicked
around quite a bit here. Does anyone have numbers on what a 95th
percentile adult male is currently considered to be? The numbers I found
last time I looked seemed quite low (6'2"!), and on examination looked
like they dated back to the early sixties...

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-Andrew Gray