{"id":3926491,"date":"2026-06-14T20:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-extraordinary-physiological-challenges-facing-amputee-john-mcfall-in-space\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:05:39","slug":"the-extraordinary-physiological-challenges-facing-amputee-john-mcfall-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-extraordinary-physiological-challenges-facing-amputee-john-mcfall-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The extraordinary physiological challenges facing amputee John McFall in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The UK Space Agency has announced an agreement with Vast\u2014a US commercial space company\u2014that could send British astronaut John McFall into orbit as early as 2027. If the mission goes ahead, he would become the first person with a physical disability to live and work in space.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-extraordinary-physiological-amputee-john-mcfall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Space Agency has announced an agreement with Vast\u2014a US commercial space company\u2014that could send British astronaut John McFall into orbit as early as 2027. If the mission goes ahead, he would become the first person with a physical disability to live and work in space. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}