Is there a minimum height you need to be to become an astronaut?

There are indeed size restrictions on being an astronaut. NASA’s limitations are listed as 62 inches (1.57 metres) for pilots and 58.5 inches (1.49 metres) for mission specialists. Limitations such as these often come from the size and layout of the spacecraft. People need to be tall enough to reach the controls and be properly secured within the craft. The Russian Soyuz capsule has an upper limit on astronaut size as well. Very tall people can’t fit inside and thus cannot fly in them into space. Where possible these limitations are being lifted as more organisations are building human-rated capsules to take you into space. On top of this, the burgeoning industry of space tourism will want to be inclusive so will likely attempt to reduce these physical limitations of spaceflight.

Josh Barker, education team presenter at the National

Space Centre