‘You Are Not Leaving Without Us’: Why Disabled Astronauts Are Key to Humanity’s Future in Space
I went silent," Dwayne Fernandes told me. I shut the hell up." Fernandes, a double-amputee since the age of 11, was recounting his experience in weightlessness, having recently participated in a parabolic flight alongside a disabled research crew. The zero-g flight threw him into a deeply contemplative state, and as...