The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut.
The 22-member space programme has just closed its latest decennial recruitment call for astronauts and received 22,000 applicants.
The ESA, whose Ariane rocket once dominated the market for commercial satellite launches, faces ever stiffer competition from tech-funded upstarts like Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Amazon founder Bezos hopes next month to become the first man to go into space on his own rocket, highlighting the growing role tech billionaires are playing in a field that was once dominated by public agencies.
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