In the program “Evening Urgant”, the TV presenter said that Roscosmos was in talks with the Cosmonaut Training Center to reduce the requirements for candidates. Urgant jokingly noted that “criminal convictions for infancy” or “mild mental deviation” should not be an obstacle to undergoing selection for cosmonauts.
Rogozin expressed the opinion that over the eight years of work the TV presenter has run out of topics for jokes, as well as "language has been prayed."
Well, what do you want? 8 years almost daily to conduct an entertainment program ... Here, not only jokes and humor will end, but the language will be prayed. So we have to laugh either about the religious feelings of Orthodox believers, then about cosmonauts-heroes. https://t.co/569ibrxeCr
- Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin) February 5, 2020In turn, the Twitter account of the FEDOR robot corrected the presenter, saying that the structures are discussing a possible reduction in the requirements for candidates only by sight.
Earlier, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, speaking of those who are selected for space flights, said that in order to become an astronaut, one must be an “average person” and not stand out very much. According to him, balanced and non-aggressive people fall into orbit.