Want to be an astronaut in China? No bad breath or body odour, please!!!

Would-be astronauts competing for China's next space programme must comply with 100 rules - excluding those with bad breath or a runny nose.

The list, intended to recruit "super human beings", also prohibits those with body odours, tooth cavities or scars which may "burst open" in space. 

China will launch a space module next year and hopes for a docking by 2011. 

But aspiring "taikonauts" will get nowhere without marital approval. Wives get the final say under the new rules. More...

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