<ul><li>John McFall, a former U.K. Paralympian, has been cleared for a future mission to the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the first person with a physical disability to travel to space.</li><li>McFall, an orthopedic surgeon, had his right leg amputated above the knee and joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2022 to assess the feasibility of a prosthesis user becoming an ISS crew member.</li><li>On February 14, 2020, ESA announced that McFall passed the necessary medical tests and is now on the waiting list for a future ISS mission.</li><li>ESA has expressed its plan to send a disabled person to the ISS before it is decommissioned, which is expected to happen after 2030.</li></ul>

'Hugely proud': UK Paralympian becomes 1st disabled astronaut to be cleared for ISS mission

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