Disability in space: Aim high
make minor adjustments to existing launch vehicles, an approach that hardly ever leads to useful design ( 3 ). Furthermore, adaptation to a single disability is a dead end: When a person with a different [...] adaptation process would have to be repeated. As a result, future spacecraft will be as inaccessible in design as the International Space Station and launch vehicles are today. Instead, development in space should [...] ground mission in 2017, a blind analog astronaut with significant hand deformities helped identify design flaws in a habitat, leading to improvements that benefited his nondisabled successors. ESA should