Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 22, 2014 14:40:56 GMT 12
I saw a bit of a programme on TV3 today called Generation Astronaut. It's a documentary where it seems they have taken teenagers from all round the world to one of the NASA facilities and are training them to become astronauts. There's even a young chap from new Zealand called Hamish.
I missed the beginning so I do not know what the criteria for getting into this training programme was, but it seems fairly random. For example one of the American kids is so fat he cannot run or climb - an extraordinary choice to have in such a group and I think perhaps he must have been thrown in for the TV producers to play with. The Aussie guy said his eyesight is so poor he failed the RAAF selection medical and five appeals! One of the kids was already a pilot but others seem to have never been in a plane before.
I thought this was a piss take show like the recent hoax series Space Camp (or whatever it was called, where they tricked a bunch of gullible Brits into thinking they were being trained to go to Mars, great show). However there are genuine astronauts involved as instructors, etc.
Did anyone else watch this? Were there any other kiwis among the 100 course members?
I missed the beginning so I do not know what the criteria for getting into this training programme was, but it seems fairly random. For example one of the American kids is so fat he cannot run or climb - an extraordinary choice to have in such a group and I think perhaps he must have been thrown in for the TV producers to play with. The Aussie guy said his eyesight is so poor he failed the RAAF selection medical and five appeals! One of the kids was already a pilot but others seem to have never been in a plane before.
I thought this was a piss take show like the recent hoax series Space Camp (or whatever it was called, where they tricked a bunch of gullible Brits into thinking they were being trained to go to Mars, great show). However there are genuine astronauts involved as instructors, etc.
Did anyone else watch this? Were there any other kiwis among the 100 course members?
