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I’d wouldn’t frame this debate as being about preventing people from entering a store, or going up stairs, or running in a straight line fast, or living a normal life.

This about a government choosing to spend many millions of dollars over 10 years to train this one person to do an insanely difficult job. So you can bet that any disability of any kind is going to be intolerable. They will pick people with 0 physical, mental, behavioural or cognitive disability. Bum kidneys? Out. Don’t react well to a fire or spiders or smoke? Out. Can’t solve the orbits question in less than 63 seconds? Out. Argumentative and not the best team player? Out. Sadly, this will also apply to any sort of physical limitation as well. It would be trivial to add some Velcro here and there, yes, but making the entire astronaut training circuit itself accessible, from everything like the 0g sim harnesses, which expect the weight of legs, to flight training, to the Russian centers, is sadly not gonna happen.