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Per Aspera (Space Agency Plan Quest)

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Your chemistry department in Mogadishu was largely a ghost town anymore. You'd have to hire more scientists… who would then probably also flee to Beijing. Some of them, anyway.
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Long-term, we should set up a robust system for long-distance STEM collaboration.
Slightly more concerning to all involved was the test reactor that would be helping the power plant design teams refine their datasets into something that would hopefully prove beneficial to the world. That, too, was slated to come online in early October, after the first shipment of fissile material arrived from Mogadishu.
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Building this in the middle of a city is bold. I hope nothing bad comes of it.

Later on, it'd be a good idea to develop a specialized gravity gradient stabilized long-duration weather satellite based off of a new bus, mostly because I want to draw up a cool gravity gradient stabilized satellite.
Caught Johanssen snorting a line of cocaine. May need to strengthen anti-overwork measures, look into hiring staff psych help."
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I blame @CyberFemme for this.

IMO, [] Size seems like a good option, because it also pushes towards [] Inclusion as well. We've got four years to teach these people to be pilots, and can throw them in a centrifuge to see if they can handle the G-loads. Science opportunities will likely be low beyond "observe how a baseline human finds doing stuff in space"; those scientists and engineers are excellent candidates for the second batch of recruits once we've ascertained what astronauts are actually capable of doing.

[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Size
 
[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Flight Experience
[X] [NAME] Taikonaut

Something something test pilots flying test vehicles.
 
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[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Flight Experience - This would encompass those with extensive piloting experience, as that stood as the greatest stand-in for high-G flight available. This would largely mean your first spacefarers would be veterans of the Third Great War and the Revolution.

Right at the moment, we just need people in space. That's it. Flight experience is the best for that, especially high-gee experience.

[x] [NAME] Cosmonaut
 
[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Flight Experience - This would encompass those with extensive piloting experience, as that stood as the greatest stand-in for high-G flight available. This would largely mean your first spacefarers would be veterans of the Third Great War and the Revolution.

Right at the moment, we just need people in space. That's it. Flight experience is the best for that, especially high-gee experience.

[X] [NAME] Cosmonaut

We should work on Weather Satellites to gain experience and show the benefits of our research.
 
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The spacefarer training facilities were completed with input from the various teams who were devising crewed spaceflight missions and technologies, and just in time for your first class of spacefarers to use them. This, of course, lead back to the debate about the informal term 'spacefarer' - should the name remain the same, codified into being the official term, or should it be changed?
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[:V] Kerbal
 
[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Flight Experience

[X] [NAME] Cosmonaut

While Astronaut is the older term, Cosmonaut is more generic-a 'space sailor' not a 'star sailor.'
 
[ ] [RIGHT STUFF] Size

This is making me remember an anime where the chosen astronauts were tiny Japanese schoolgirls, for their low weight XD
 
[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Size
[X] [NAME] Cosmonaut

Cosmonaut was apparently the front runner for the US space program as well but the air force divas wanted astronaut IIRC.

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I blame @CyberFemme for this.
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CON-VAIR! CON-VAIR! CON-VAIR!



Rockeye said:
[ ] [RIGHT STUFF] Size

This is making me remember an anime where the chosen astronauts were tiny Japanese schoolgirls, for their low weight XD
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQUU-IHExNc

But WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH ANIME AND JAM LICKING?!?!
 
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[X] [NAME] Keep Spacefarer
[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Size

I like the indirect approach to Inclusion that's also biased toward women, myself. Also, I associate all the 'nauts with national space programs, so I think "spacefarer" is nice and universal.
 
[X] [RIGHT STUFF] Size
[X] [NAME] Luina lewa

So I'll admit I just punched "space sailor" into a couple of online Hawaiian translators, but I do really want to honor Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The settlement of Polynesia was the last great wave of the human colonization of the globe, and we are hopefully eventually the start of the first great wave OFF world. Polynesian knowledge of the stars is really impressive too.
And Hawaii has one of the best spots to observe the sky on the planet, Mauna Kea my beloved.
Also fun fact, the opposite side of the world from Hawaii is in Botswana, and the opposite from Fiji is roughly Timbuktu.
Lastly if there's a better Hawaiian word or phrase please tell me.
 
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