Would it be plausible for missions taking such extended durations in space travel, such as to Mars to seek potential Astronauts who have serve long periods of time in prison or jail?
A person who has spent 15 years in a confined space would have the most likely chance of not going crazy during the mission opposed to your average six figure a year Astronaut with the beach house in Hawaii. I mean a very selective search of persons who have minor charges of maybe just drug dealing or are serving for financial fraud.
There are many reasons to argue this either way, but isn't the best way to obtain the most likely persons able to complete the mission?
I actually think that's a brilliant idea. Aside from bebating the reason why he/she is in prison to begin (which should be irrelevant), the fact still remains this type of person has been exposed to an extremely stressful environment, isolation, and the list can go on for miles.
Yes, depending on the type of charges, I agree they would be valid choices. People with non voilent crimes, which already have exposure to long prison sentences. These would probably be the better candidates to for long durations of space travel.
What I always found of interesting is the biosphere project, which literally mimic todays super prisons. All that money spent on what you can simply go to the department of corrections for
use prisoners with long jail terms as our astronauts into space??..oh yeah, bad idea does not begin to cover that, for one..theyre there not by choice, theyre there in jail because they dont deserve their freedom( societys stance on criminals who believe that others posessions belong to them, or rape is a good thing, or murder is something that they can do etc etc ) and two, do you want your explorer to be someone who could just snap and destroy a billion dollars worth of equipment?? or who doesnt have a clue how to test soil samples, build habitats, maintain whatever equipment that is needed on a foreign planet. Going into space is a privilage that hopefully one day we will all share in, right now its a select few..and if you've done something bad enough to get yourself removed from society and its freedoms, then you dont deserve the honour of going out into space..almost like youre an ambassador of our planet, sorry for ranting, but bad question imho
