IIN Members: Please Read and Advise!

First, an introduction. My name is Komander Vassily Laika, and I am to be member of the 2015 manned mission to the moon. We plan to build a permanent base for purpose to tap its energy resources and to dispatch a crew to Mars between 2020 and 2030. This is my first excursion into space, and I am excited but also very nervous.

As you probably will know, the Roskosmos has had much difficulty with lack of funding. But lately, with economy boom of 2005 from oil and gas export prices, funding outlook was much improved. Our space program now has constant influx of rubles from that and other means. It is a time of rebirth for our great program and country!

To you, it must seem very far in the future, this mission I take. But I live in much fear that I may disgrace my country and the RFSA due to health problem that no one yet knows of. I would not burden my wife or other family with these details. It is my hope that kind strangers such as yourselves might offer advice.

You see, I have very bad problem of spastic colon, and space travel may make very much worse. The space shuttle has toilet much like those on earth. The waste from toilet is moved with air, then compressed and stored onboard ship until landing. This is very good so far, but not good for me. If I would be in toilet when the ship travels through the Van Allen Belt, that could make trouble. Same trouble when trying to adapt to zero G.

I have been told by doctor of family that I should not go! He says such conditions could cause “colonic and intestinal implosion� if I am in toilet. This means that my fecals will very likely to eject forcefully through all holes in the body. And also, he says resulting pressure may create new hole where spinal column is projectiled. Splattering bones and fecals might kill my comrads on mission. Also, is very bad.

Should I risk this mess of the fecals and take chance at glory? Or stay home and tend to father-in-law’s Evorsk Vole herds?

Please help me, and I am very grateful

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