Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
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#2This feels a bit played up. They are allowing short people to apply to be astronauts; I wouldn't consider that championing inclusion and diversity.
Re: Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
#3This feels a bit played up. They are allowing short people to apply to be astronauts; I wouldn't consider that championing inclusion and diversity.
Gagarin did it before it was cool.
Re: Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
#4This feels a bit played up. They are allowing short people to apply to be astronauts; I wouldn't consider that championing inclusion and diversity.
I'd say we don't let the good be the enemy of the perfect. This is what the article said and at least include more people with disabilities than it did before, isn't that good?
- They have a lower limb deficiency (for example, due to amputation or congenital limb deficiency).
- They have a leg length difference.
- They are of short stature (<130 cm).
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#5This feels a bit played up. They are allowing short people to apply to be astronauts; I wouldn't consider that championing inclusion and diversity.
You ignored the first bullet of the three, which was: "They have a lower limb deficiency (for example, due to amputation or congenital limb deficiency)"
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#6Pandering again.
Let people with disabilities stay on Earth and continue posting on HackerNews.
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#7This feels a bit played up. They are allowing short people to apply to be astronauts; I wouldn't consider that championing inclusion and diversity.
You ignored the first bullet of the three, which was: "They have a lower limb deficiency (for example, due to amputation or congenital limb deficiency)"
Technically, those are short people, too.
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#8Given how few people we can afford to send into space, is it too much to ask that we send the best people we have? Leave the identity politics back on Earth.
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#9My dream of going into space was shattered when I got the news that my heart was enlarged and I needed surgery to replace my aorta valve. Between the life-long dependence on blood thinners and the already-weakened heart, I don't think I'll ever be able to go.
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#10This is great forward-thinking. It's rarely too early to think about people with disabilities. Setting up some structure to allow reasonable accommodations early will help avoid a need to later 'open up' space travel to others when it [hopefully] becomes more commonplace. This sort of research ought to be done now while we're still in a nascent phase of space travel.
Disclaimer: I don't know much about the typical protocols of astronauts and the engineering required for safe space travel, but I do know a thing or two about disabilities.