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From:
Kathy Taylor, age 25
To: Mission Specialist Marc Garneau
Question:
Can an astronaut wear contacts
in space? Would an individual qualify to be an astronaut without
20/20 vision?
Garneau:
The answer is yes, you
can wear contacts in space. Some astronauts do wear them. And to
become an astronaut - if you're going to become a pilot astronaut
- you have to have better than 20 over 70 vision distance, and it
has to be correctable to 20/20. If you want to become a mission
specialist - the other kind of astronaut - your vision requirements
are 20 over 200, once again correctable to 20/20. So you don't have
to have perfect vision to become an astronaut.
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