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How disability can impact astronauts
It's important to consider diversity when you're putting together a spaceship crew, whether real or fictional. Here's an interesting article about how having a disability can affect people in space. It should give space opera authors some ideas about how making their ship's crew more diverse can impact the story.
In my book The Screaming Void, Jay’s mental health issues play a small but important role in the story, and make him uniquely suited to survive in the most dangerous place in space. What about the crew in your story?
After decades assuming disabled people would struggle in spaceflight, researchers are finally asking what they can contribute.
