This makes sense and I expect in time, that short people in general will be preferred due to their fewer calories needed. The Expanse books go into “spacer” ev

This makes sense and I expect in time, that short people in general will be preferred due to their fewer calories needed. The Expanse books go into “spacer” evolution but I think that we’d have more short and compact people rather than tall and thin since taking less space is important in space in addition to fewer calories. Also, there’s a funny bit in Seveneves where people in space cut off their legs because they felt they didn’t need them (spoiler: they did need them). I thought that after astronaut programs got past their original sexism blocking female astronauts that the other concern was that radiation in space was much more harmful to female reproductive systems than male. So the future of space work is post menopausal women. Or I suppose short men as well.