John McFall is a para-astronaut, and he hopes the first person with disabilities will enter the International Space Station by 2030 — before the complex is slated to retire from service later ...

European Space Agency (ESA) reserve astronaut John McFall has just become the first person with a physical disability to be medically certified to launch on a long-duration mission to the ...

43-year-old John McFall has become the world’s first astronaut with a physical disability cleared for a long-duration mission ...

Paralympian turned astronaut John McFall could soon be the first disabled person to go to space – and he credits the Paralympics with helping to challenge preconceptions of what disabled people ...

When and how did John McFall become a Parastronaut? The 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Group was revealed in Paris on November 23, 2022. It was the fourth ESA recruitment campaign and ...

John McFall: It is, first of all, personal: As a former runner, being in the place where the athletes will stay for the next 10 days brings with it many memories.

John McFall, who lost a leg in a ... Tim Peake, who became the European Space Agency’s first British astronaut in 2008, said that Mr. McFall’s recruitment was “absolutely groundbreaking. ...

John McFall, a 41-year-old British paralympic sprinter who now works as a doctor, is one of 17 candidates chosen from 22,500 applicants to join the space agency’s 2022 astronaut class.The ...

John McFall, a reserve U.K. para-astronaut with the European Space Agency, recently participated in a feasibility study for ISS astronauts with disabilities. He told Space.com what's coming next.

This astronaut won't be letting his prosthetic leg ground him to the confines of Earth. European Space Agency (ESA) reserve astronaut John McFall has just become the first person with a physical ...

Paralympian turned astronaut John McFall could soon be the first disabled person to go to space – and he credits the Paralympics with helping to challenge preconceptions of what disabled people ...