Once it was Shackleton in Antarctica or Hillary on top of Everest that inspired wonder. Now it's the space men and women who are finding new frontiers.
Now he will be part of a programme to test the feasibility of people with a disability working in space.Brit paralympian first 'para-astronaut'
As Tim Peake told me, all astronauts are disabled to some extent by micro-gravity and being an amputee may not be the problem it was once thought to be.It wasn't just the 34 different experiments that he was involved in. It was also what it meant back in Britain. More than 33 million people engaged with his orbital adventure, more than a fifth of schoolchildren were involved in mission-related educational activities and public appreciation of just how important space was to the UK economy jumped.The new astronauts can dream of going further - to the moon and beyond.Some people argue that it's cheaper and safer to send robots, which are increasingly capable.
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