By Brandon Richardson– October 25, 2021 Twelve people with various disabilities floated weightless in simulated space environments—in the name of science and a more accessible final frontier. Mission: AstroAccess took off from Long Beach Airport last week, carrying the 12 ambassadors—some blind, others with prosthetic limbs and some with hearing and visual impairments. During 15 parabolic maneuvers, various demonstrations took place, some using … Read More

Medscape Staff October 25, 2021 A nonprofit ran a flight in zero-gravity conditions for passengers with disabilities in an effort to ensure the new wave of space travel comes with accessibility built in. What to know: 12 people with disabilities recently participated in a parabolic flight, a space training flight within the Earth’s atmosphere that moves up and down in arcs to … Read More

Griffin Davis , Tech Times 20 October 2021, 06:10 pm Space missions for persons with disabilities might could really happen as the new “Mission: AstroAccess” project tries to make this a possibility. Last Oct. 17, the non-profit space program allowed 12 individuals with disabilities to experience weightlessness. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket streaks skyward off Launch Complex 41 from Cape … Read More

Efforts are underway to make space missions more accessible By Rachel Crowell on October 20, 2021 Mona Minkara is a bioengineer at Northeastern University, where she leads a laboratory focused on applying computational modeling to pulmonary research. She is also one of the only blind faculty members in her field. Recently, Minkara embarked on a different kind of experiment. She and 11 other … Read More

OSTED BY: DAVID DUPONT OCTOBER 20, 2021 By DAVID DUPONT BG Independent News Reached by telephone at her hotel room in California, Sheri Wells-Jensen is laughing. She explains she woke up from a dream a half-hour ago. In the dream she was floating. She had been laughing since then. Wells-Jensen is still coming off the highs of her flight into zero gravity … Read More

By PIERCE SINGGIH | psinggih@scng.com | Press-Telegram PUBLISHED: October 18, 2021 at 4:53 p.m. | UPDATED: October 18, 2021 at 6:01 p.m. Space travel took a step toward accessibility Sunday, Oct. 17, after a parabolic flight allowed 12 people with mobility, vision and hearing disabilities to experience zero gravity in Long Beach, a growing hub for the aerospace industry. As more billionaires and actors fly toward the stars … Read More

AstroAccess has selected 12 ambassadors to fly on a parabolic, weightless flight. Ambassadors with mobility, vision, and hearing disabilities will test the design for accessibility in zero-gravity and high gravity environments. Coinciding with World Space Week, the crew announced today will seek to advance disability inclusion in space. AstroAcccess, a mission dedicated to advancing disability inclusion in space exploration, today … Read More

By Chelsea Gohd published October 19, 2021 “What we did yesterday was absolutely historic,” George Whitesides said. LONG BEACH, Calif. — A crew of 12 “disability ambassadors” successfully completed a weightless flight Sunday (Oct. 17) in the pursuit to make space accessible for all. On Sept. 15, Hayley Arceneaux became the first person with a prosthesis to fly to space when she launched … Read More