First astronaut with a disability cleared for space station mission
First astronaut with a disability cleared for space station mission
The first-ever astronaut with a physical disability has been cleared for a mission onboard the International Space Station, the European Space Agency announced on Friday.
Looks like Trump forgot to fire this DEI hire.
Good for him!
Looks like Trump forgot to fire this DEI hire.
Did you even read the article from your own post? He's an astronaut for the European Space Agency. Trump doesn't have a single thing to do with this story, so please don't tarnish an awesome news story my bringing him up.
Edit: Oh FFS the article mentions him later on too. That's just thinly-veiled ableism.
John McFall will fly to the ISS - which is co-administered by the United States - on a SpaceX rocket. If you think Trump or Musk had no say on whether he should be allowed on the mission, you're deluded.
Also, it was a joke.
I guess you could leave his leg on earth so there would be weight savings
You jest, but it's been suggested in the past. A true space-faring human society whose members spend most of their lives in zero or reduced gravity might benefit from not dragging along bits and pieces that are only useful in a high-gravity environment. There's a good chance that evolution itself would evolve humans without those bits that are useless in space over time.
In other words, the disabled on Earth could well be the ones most advantaged in space.
There is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold ‘Falling Free’ about a population of genetically engineered ‘quaddies’ and their situation once artificial gravity technology becomes available.