“Drunks, liars and dropouts have been banned by Nasa from its space station,” Annanova reports. “The agency released its criteria for visitors to the International Space Station in a nine-page report.”

The new rules were prompted by the growth in ‘space tourists’ wanting to go into orbit. Any visitors deemed undesirables will not be let in.

The ruling from Nasa’s Cape Canaveral base states a candidate’s past and present conduct must be assessed before they are allowed aboard the station.

Disqualification is likely for the visitor in the case of delinquency or misconduct in prior employment or military service.

Those banned include anyone with criminal or dishonest traits, anyone who makes intentional false statements or commits fraud and anyone who habitually uses intoxicating beverages to excess.

Related: Norman Mineta is said to be “very troubled” by such “moralist profiling” and insists “uncouth, drunken liars” kept off of the space station can always find a seat “on one of our thousands of near-empty airplanes.”

“That is,” he added, “so long as they’re willing to take off their shoes.”

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