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Malaysia has announced their intent to send an astronaut to the moon by 2020.

But such dreams were almost immediately called into question when the first batch of would-be space explorers struggled with a simple fitness test.

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On Saturday, the first group from a shortlist of more than 800 would-be astronauts set out to run 3.5km (two miles) in a leisurely 20 minutes.

All were hoping to claim Malaysia’s seat on a Russian-led space mission, scheduled for 2007.

But only 12 out of 31 taking part passed the test.

Let’s see, by 2020 they should be able to at least fake their own moon landing…

[via The BBC]

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