Too Tall?

Height Is all relative. Someone could be considered 'too tall' for the Russian Space Program, but still be short enough to be a British Spy. This page tracks the discrepancies of how much height is considered to be too much.

James Bond "Too Tall" For MI5
New guidelines for MI5 -- the UK's domestic intelligence service -- stipulate that Britons applying to be field agents should be no taller than 5ft 11ins (1.8 m) for men and 5ft 8ins (1.73 m) for women so they don't stand out, Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported.

That would rule out all the actors to have starred as the suave, unflappable Bond who worked for MI5's sister foreign spy agency MI6 in the 007 movies. Bond stars Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan are all 6ft (1.83m) or taller, the paper said.

Apparently, the domestic agency wants operatives who blend into crowds which makes sense for field work but not offering desk jobs to taller applicants just seems like discrimination. more--->

6ft 3in Businessman "Too Tall" for Space
Officials at the Russian Space Agency said Welsh-born businessman Peter Llewellyn turned out to be too tall for the craft that would have taken him up to Mir.

Russian Cosmonauts are usually no more than 5 feet 7 inches tall, but Llewellyn is nearly 6 feet 3 inches. The businessman had planned to spend three months training before making a flight in August of 1999. more--->

Over 5ft11 is "Too Tall" for NASA
Specialists at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine first defined criteria for selecting astronauts in 1957. Candidates were to be younger than 40 years old and no more than 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall (to fit the small Mercury capsules) more--->

Russian Ballarina not "Too Tall" for Bolshoi
An ice-cream-loving ballerina fired by Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theater for being too heavy and too tall was ordered back to work by Russia's Labor Ministry. They ruled her dismissal as discriminatory... more--->