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Former Paralympic Athlete Selected as World's First Disabled Astronaut
Gizmodo ^
| Passant Rabie
Posted on 11/25/2022 8:14:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
British paralympic athlete John McFall, 41, was selected among a group of 17 astronaut candidates, marking ESA’s first new batch of recruits in 13 years, the space agency announced on Wednesday. The new class includes five career astronauts, 11 reserve astronauts, and an astronaut with a physical disability. The new recruits will begin a 12-month basic training program at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in the spring of 2023.
The astronaut candidate will help ESA further understand how to accommodate people with physical disabilities on board spacecraft, and may eventually get to travel to space himself.
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posted on
11/25/2022 8:14:59 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
What would James Watt say? (Or what did he say—I’d have posted it but I can’t remember accurately and am too lazy to look it up)
To: Hieronymus
How can they fit a wheelchair into a spaceship?
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posted on
11/25/2022 8:30:17 PM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2022 8:36:27 PM PST
by
jimfree
(My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Lost a leg, track and field athlete, surgeon...fit, smart man.
Sure it’s diversity virtue signaling, but this guy probably is a decent pick.
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posted on
11/25/2022 8:47:34 PM PST
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
To: heartwood
#5:
"Sure it’s diversity virtue signaling, but this guy probably is a decent pick." I agree. I think it's a fine choice. For one thing, neither skin color nor sexual perversions are involved.
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posted on
11/25/2022 8:52:10 PM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: BenLurkin
I could make a tacky comment about a spacewalk, but actually I do think it would be good to make it possible just for the problem-solving practice.
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posted on
11/25/2022 9:03:30 PM PST
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
What a waste of time and money space is.
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posted on
11/25/2022 9:47:58 PM PST
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2022 10:06:37 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Truth is not hate speech.)
To: BenLurkin
Well, if they’re sending him to Mars, it’s a one-way trip anyway.
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posted on
11/25/2022 10:41:48 PM PST
by
Dogbert41
(Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
To: Governor Dinwiddie; SaveFerris; gundog
Plus a wheelchair ramp.
Hey, maybe he’ll get a Cougar 9000!
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posted on
11/25/2022 11:25:35 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Nervous Tick
It’s just my job...
5 days a week....
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posted on
11/26/2022 12:08:51 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Nervous Tick
[Idiocracy. We’re there.]
Indeed.
It arrived with Herbert Dwayne Barack Hussein Brawndo Obama.
And all of his easily-duped sheep that believe in him.
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posted on
11/26/2022 12:10:55 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: BenLurkin
Mr. McFall - Well, best of luck to him
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posted on
11/26/2022 12:14:21 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Larry Lucido
The tremor-dampening is nice, but the
Cougar 10 tilts back for lift-off.
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posted on
11/26/2022 5:00:00 AM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: BenLurkin
If I dont get to be a jet pilot because I am color blind I dont think a paraplegic should be allowed to be an astronaut.
Sorry to hurt the worlds feelings but I would not trust a disabled person with my life in an extreme emergency like may occur in the cold deadly vacuum of space when you have a cripple on board trying to be an astronaut.
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posted on
11/26/2022 7:42:39 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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