John McFall, a reserve astronaut with the European Space Agency, says he is 'not a great competitor.' But he transformed his Paralympics race in 2008 into a career-boosting moment.

John McFall, a reserve U.K. para-astronaut with the European Space Agency, recently participated in a feasibility study for ISS astronauts with disabilities. He told Space.com what's coming next.

Paralympian turned astronaut John McFall could soon be the first disabled person to go to space – and he credits the Paralympics with helping to challenge preconceptions of what disabled people ...

European Space Agency (ESA) reserve astronaut John McFall has just become the first person with a physical disability to be medically certified to launch on a long-duration mission to the ...

John McFall: It is, first of all, personal: As a former runner, being in the place where the athletes will stay for the next 10 days brings with it many memories.

Born in 1981, in Surrey, England, John McFall is a British Paralympic sprinter, surgeon, and ESA Project astronaut. Although as a teenager he was a runner and hockey player, in August 2000, while ...

McFall is the first astronaut candidate with a physical disability. Hopeful astronaut-to-be, John McFall, is one of four training for a stint on the International Space Station (ISS) at the ...

John McFall is a para-astronaut, and he hopes the first person with disabilities will enter the International Space Station by 2030 — before the complex is slated to retire from service later ...

Paralympian turned astronaut John McFall could soon be the first disabled person to go to space – and he credits the Paralympics with helping to challenge preconceptions of what disabled people ...

John McFall, a reserve astronaut with the European Space Agency, says he is 'not a great competitor.' But he transformed his Paralympics race in 2008 into a career-boosting moment.