Paralympic bronze medalist John McFall becomes European Space Agency’s first disabled astronaut | News News

John McFall represented Team GB during the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the 100m sprint event; he was among over 22,500 candidates who applied to the ESA, a list which included more women than ever and some 200 people with disabilities By Amar Mehta Last Updated: 23/11/22 5:30pm John McFall is … Read more

Uvalde school shooting: Texas DPS head Steven McCraw to update agency’s oversight board Thursday

CNN — The Texas Department of Public Safety’s top official is due to deliver Thursday the first formal, public update to his agency’s oversight panel on its officers’ actions during the May massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, with families of the victims, furious over the response, expected to attend the meeting and call on … Read more

Nasa’s new rocket is the last hurrah for US space agency’s old ways

If Nasa’s giant Space Launch System rocket lifts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center as planned on Monday, it will become the first vehicle in 50 years capable of carrying humans to the Moon. For the commercial space industry, it could signal something even more significant: the end of the line for the US space … Read more