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ESA's new parastronaut John McFall, a British former Paralympic sprinter who will take part in a potentially groundbreaking feasibility study to explore whether physical disability will impair space travel, poses for a
Parastronauts Could Redefine Disability in Zero Gravity | European Space Agency, gravity, astronaut | The European Space Agency is studying the future recruitment of disabled astronauts, also known as parastronauts. The move
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