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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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1 posted on 11/25/2022 8:14:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
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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)


2 posted on 11/25/2022 8:16:30 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: Hieronymus
How can they fit a wheelchair into a spaceship?

3 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pathetic.


4 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.)
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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.


5 posted on 11/25/2022 8:47:34 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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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.

6 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.)
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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.


7 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 )
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What a waste of time and money space is.


8 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

Idiocracy. We’re there.


9 posted on 11/25/2022 10:06:37 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, if they’re sending him to Mars, it’s a one-way trip anyway.


10 posted on 11/25/2022 10:41:48 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; SaveFerris; gundog

Plus a wheelchair ramp.

Hey, maybe he’ll get a Cougar 9000!


11 posted on 11/25/2022 11:25:35 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Nervous Tick

It’s just my job...

5 days a week....


12 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 ......)
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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.


13 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 ......)
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To: BenLurkin
Mr. McFall - Well, best of luck to him


14 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 ......)
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To: Larry Lucido
The tremor-dampening is nice, but the Cougar 10 tilts back for lift-off.
15 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. )
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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.


16 posted on 11/26/2022 7:42:39 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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