” program. The last time the agency had astronaut openings, they received more 8,000 applications. Trovatello says that agency officials consulted with both NASA and the International Paralympic Committee before making the announcement. “We have informed all our ISS partners regarding our intent,” Trovatello wrote in an email to WIRED. “But we have to run the feasibility study first.”
In fact, some differences among astronauts that would be apparent on Earth would disappear in the zero-G environment of space or the one-sixth gravity found on the moon. On Earth, “the purpose of a prosthesis is to provide the function of gravity and support body weight,” Blauwet says. But, she continues, “in a zero-gravity environment, much of that would be mitigated, and you could use something much simpler in space.
Still, spacecraft, spacesuits, and possibly cockpit seats will need to be modified to fit prosthetic devices or persons of short stature. There will also have to be new protocols and training methods to evacuate the crew during an emergency, such as a problem on the launch pad before take-off or during a splashdown at sea.
Why should we wanna send any disable people to space if 1 kg of rocket weights 100 000 usd?
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