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To boldly go: John McFall hopes to be the first astronaut with a disability
European Space Agency testing Paralympian sprinter to see how conditions in space would affect his prosthesis
When a colleague sent John McFall a job advert for would-be astronauts, his reaction was swift. “To be honest all I had in my head was: ‘It would be awesome to go to space.’”
Doing so, however, would entail shattering through a glass ceiling – one that has held firm during more than six decades of space exploration.
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