By Chelsea Gohd published October 15, 2021 The AstroAccess initiative is working to advance disability inclusion in space. Twelve disability ambassadors will fly weightlessly on Sunday (Oct. 17) as part of an initiative to advance disability inclusion in space. AstroAccess, the latest mission from the SciAccess Initiative, which aims to make STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) more accessible, will fly a crew … 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

Mission: AstroAccess has the goal of sending one of its ambassadors to space By Loren Grush@lorengrush  Oct 20, 2021, 11:04am EDT When Sina Bahram shifted into weightlessness for the first time on Sunday, he could feel the air brushing past his skin as his body began to float into the air. As someone who’d longed to be an astronaut since he was … 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

Zero-G flights offer customers the experience without anywhere near the cost of a rocket flight By Christian Davenport October 28, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT CORRECTION An earlier version of this story misstated what the gravity is on Mars and on the moon compared with Earth. This version has been corrected. Take that, Richard Branson. Take that, Jeff Bezos and William Shatner and all the suborbital … Read More

In this lesson, students will learn about efforts being made to make spaceflight more accessible. Then, they will consider accessibility in their community. By Nicole Daniels Oct. 29, 2021 Lesson Overview Featured Article: “A Future for People With Disabilities in Outer Space Takes Flight” by Amanda Morris Recently, 12 passengers with disabilities traveled aboard a parabolic flight in an experiment testing … Read More

Meet the first disabled crew to fly in zero-gravity Listen here: BBC Sounds – Ouch!, ‘It was magical’ – the first disabled crew to fly in zero-gravity Episode Transcript  This is a full transcript of ‘It was magical’ – the first disabled crew to fly in zero-gravity as broadcast on 9 November 2021 and presented by Beth Rose. [Music] SINA- … Read More