{"id":151023,"date":"2022-11-24T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-european-space-agency-announces-the-worlds-first-disabled-astronaut"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:24:23","slug":"the-european-space-agency-announces-the-worlds-first-disabled-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-european-space-agency-announces-the-worlds-first-disabled-astronaut","title":{"rendered":"The European Space Agency announces the world\u2019s first disabled astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-european-space-agency-announces-the-worlds-first-disabled-astronaut3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience is for everyone and space travel hopefully can be for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) named the first-ever \u201cparastronaut\u201d this week on Wednesday, Nov. 23, meaning the world may soon see the first disabled person go to space.<\/p>\n<p>The agency, made up of 22 nations, chose former British Paralympic sprinter John McFall among 16 other new recruits for astronaut training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cScience is for everyone and space travel hopefully can be for everyone.\u201d The European Space Agency (ESA) named the first-ever \u201cparastronaut\u201d this week on Wednesday, Nov. 23, meaning the world may soon see the first disabled person go to space. The agency, made up of 22 nations, chose former British Paralympic sprinter John McFall among [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}