Shenzhou 13 ｜ What if a female astronaut meets menstruation?

Pang Zhihao said that the selection and training standards for male and female astronauts are basically the same, and there are no special selection and training standards for female astronauts. However, because the space mission of the space station is relatively complex, everyone will divide the work, including flight experts (also known as space pilots) and mission experts (i.e. space flight engineers), and even payload experts.

Throughout the world, most female astronauts are mission experts, which has a certain relationship with physical and psychological conditions. For example, women have more fat, short average height, light weight and low energy consumption of aerobic exercise. At the same time, in the microgravity environment, female astronauts have better estrogen level, magnesium metabolism and low iron content, so they are considered to be more suitable for long-term life in space.

Pang Zhihao continued that according to women's physiological characteristics and life needs, they really should make some special preparations, such as making special spacecraft seats according to the body of female astronauts, customizing special in-flight spacesuits, especially making gloves suitable for women, and adjusting the height and distance of urine and urine collection system.

In addition, they are equipped with chocolate, dessert and blood tonic products. According to the needs of this mission, Tianzhou 3 also provided sanitary supplies and a small amount of non-toxic cosmetics for female astronauts.

As for menstruation, Pang Zhihao said that practice has shown that female astronauts basically have normal menstruation in space, but they are prone to decompression sickness when they walk in space during menstruation, so they generally do not walk in space at that time.

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