European Space Agency’s first para-astronaut!
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen its first-ever para-astronaut to serve in space. This is a step toward the ambitious goal of the European Space Agency to send a person with a physical disability into space.
What is a para-astronaut?
The term paranaut is sometimes used for an astronaut with a physical disability.
Also, for the first time in almost a decade, the European Space Agency (ESA) hired two women to be astronauts.
This is part of its first astronaut recruitment campaign. It aims to get more people from different backgrounds interested in space travel.
Key facts!
- John McFall is a 41-year-old British citizen.
- When he was 19, he lost his right leg.
- He said that being chosen to work at Europe’s version of NASA is a turning point in history.
- ESA has decided to send John into space.
- John was selected to would work with five professional astronauts
- It’s the first time a space agency has tried to do something like this.
- Experts think that this sends a good message to people who want to become astronauts.
- This is the end of the agency’s first recruitment drive in more than a decade.
- The goal of the drive was to make space travel more diverse.
- Two women, Sophie Adenot of France and Rosemary Coogan of the United Kingdom, were also on the list.
- Only a small number of people who have been to space are women, and most of those women are from the United States.
- At the time, the focus of the recruitment drive wasn’t just on racial or ethnic diversity.
- Instead, it was on the importance of “representing all parts of our society.”
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