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According to Virgin Galactic : "We absolutely want and expect to be able to take disabled people to space. We do not need people to be super fit and there will ...

For astronauts and cosmonauts, any illness will disqualify them from spaceflight. Most often, the illness will improve or be resolved over time and the crewmembers can be qualified for spaceflight again. As space travel becomes more routine and people begin to buy tickets to go to space, there will be fewer medical restrictions. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF Dr. Richard S. Williams ...

... 2003, the Halloween event took out power in Scandinavia. CME events can burn out transformers, disable pipeline controls, and perhaps take out the now omnipresent Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA ... a CME could create a natural ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP) that could, depending on its magnitude, disable a significant amount of the world’s vital electronic, communications, information, and transportation infrastructure. ref ...

... help foster science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educational opportunities among high school students with disabilities. This collaboration is part of the broader DCPS Competitive Employment Opportunity Program, a career-focused mentoring program that connects selected high school students with disabilities to professional mentors in the greater District of Columbia community. The program provides students with ...

... successful, could extend useful lifetimes of communications and weather satellites and, possibly, could inspect or disable hostile space­craft. One plan was to launch 600-lb robot attached to 1,000 ... . With repair kit orbited on distress signal from regular satellite, robot would rendezvous and repair disabled sat­ellite directed by a ground controller by radio signals transmitted via the tender. After ...

... Administration signed agreement "to accelerate the application of new technology to the problems of the disabled" by making results of aerospace research available for application to rehabilitation "on a continuing basis ... of NASA technology by VRA scientists; adaptive engineering to apply that technology to needs of disabled persons; demonstration of resulting devices, systems, and procedures; and commercial introduction of new devices and ...

... as including "possibility of destroying low flying missiles, the disabling and destruction of aircraft, probably through ignition of fuel, and the disabling of fuse mechanisms and of infra-red homing or detection ...

... apex cover and drogues as scheduled and had had to be fired manually, without first disabling the reaction-control system thrusters. With the CM oscillating, the thrusters began firing rapidly to ... -entered through the cabin-pressure relief valves. As soon as the RCS system had been disabled, fresh air was once again drawn into the cabin. The crew members told flight officials ...

... a clothesline between two spaceships and passing the rescue ball with its passenger from the disabled ship to the other; or using the remote manipulator arm in the orbiter's cargo bay to pluck the rescue ball with its passenger from the disabled ship and put it aboard the rescue ship. Materials to be used in the rescue ...

... C93-q) Twenty-six Prince George's County, Maryland, students with physical, mental, or learning disabilities spent six weeks in a jobs program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... , which was under the auspices of the President's Commission on Employment for Persons With Disabilities, aimed to steer more young people into fields like science, engineering, and computer programming. (W ...

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