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.