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Healthy and Inoffensive Astronauts Wanted
The goal of China's next space programme is to is to build a space station orbiting earth, and they are being mighty careful about who will get to inhabit that space station. The agency is attempting to recruit 'super human beings', prohibiting those with bad breath, tooth decay, body odours, or scars which may 'burst open' in space. 'Bad body odour will affect fellow colleagues in the narrow confines of a space shuttle,' a doctor at the 454th Air Force Hospital in Nanjing helpfully explained. Also banned will be any candidate with a history of serious illness in the last three generations of their family, and anyone with drug allergies or ringworm. In addition, the hopeful astronaut must possess a 'pleasant and adaptable disposition.' As if that were not stringent enough, those without marital approval need not apply.