Greetings All
How about sending the people to space who belong there: the paraplegics.
Legs are a detriment in weightlessness. And people who are confined to
wheelchairs here would be free and equal for the first time in their lives
(or since they'd been confined to a wheelchair). I am familiar with the
SF story Jamie mentioned about the genetically designed workers with hands
instead of feet, and it does make a valid point, you really don't need
legs in weightlessness.
I say that ultimately space station crews should be opened to people with
no legs. They deserve it and they won't have the problems the rest of us
experience.
Pam
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