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Seeing a Future for Astronauts With Disabilities on a Zero-Gravity Airplane Flight

Seeing a Future for Astronauts With Disabilities on a Zero-Gravity Airplane Flight

The New York Times
Friday, October 22, 2021 8:21 PM GMT

People with different types of disabilities tested their skills and technologies on a research flight with the goal of proving that they can safely go to space.

Eric Ingram typically moves through the world on his wheelchair. The 31-year-old chief executive of SCOUT Inc., a smart satellite components company, was born with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, a rare condition that affects his joints and blocked him from his dream of becoming an astronaut. He applied and was rejected, twice.

But onboard a special airplane flight this week, he spun effortlessly through the air, touching nothing. Moving around, he found, was easier in the simulated zero-gravity environment where he needed so few tools to help.

While simulating lunar gravity on the flight — which is about one-sixth of Earth’s — he discovered something even more surprising: for the first time in his life, he could stand up.

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