[know.your.why]

They must be so sick of being up there.

What is it now...290ish days? In a weightless can with no way out. I would have no joke probably had a psychotic meltdown. How does anyone cope with that kind of confinement and remain in a mental state that would be considered functional?

[T.B. Yoits]

How does anyone cope with that kind of confinement and remain in a mental state that would be considered functional?

By focusing on the lawsuits and book deals.

[John Milner]

” What is it now...290ish days? In a weightless can with no way out. I would have no joke probably had a psychotic meltdown. How does anyone cope with that kind of confinement and remain in a mental state that would be considered functional?”

The worst part of it for most of the time was - there was no future date they could pin their hopes on. It was always some fuzzy time in the future. Not having that date to focus on as when you’re getting out of there would be the one thing that would drive me bananas. No light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.

[Getready]

They screen the astronauts for the “right stuff”.I recommend reading that book by Tom Wolfe...namely “The Right Stuff”...movie was OK...book is waaaaay better.