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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>This sounds awesome. I have already applied and hope to be accepted. This is the first mission toward including people with disabilities on space missions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Margo Downey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Announce@acblists.org [mailto:Announce@acblists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Gasque<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 26, 2021 9:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> announce@acblists.org; ACB-Conversation@acblists.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Announce] AstroAccess — A Call For Disabled Explorers to Experience Zero Gravity!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The following is a message from AstroAccess:<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Outer space is not just humanity’s future: it's a call to rethink life on Earth right now</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>. In zero gravity, what is standing up? What is lying down? What does it mean to be unable to walk if no one there is walking? How does that shift our understanding of disability?<br><br>We are excited to announce the launch of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Mission: AstroAccess, a program bringing a diverse group of disabled space enthusiasts on a historic ZERO-G parabolic flight!</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Participants will complete targeted tasks during the program’s flight to help answer basic questions about how disabled people can live and work in outer space. Mission: AstroAccess’ crew of disabled volunteers will take flight on<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>October 17th, 2021</span></strong>, as the first step in a progression towards increasing diversity in space and the greater STEM field. </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#757575'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;min-width: 100%;word-spacing:0px'><tr><td style='padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 0in 13.5pt;min-width: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-width: 100%'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;min-width: 100%;word-spacing:0px'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='background:#252A6C;border-top-left-radius: 6px;border-top-right-radius: 6px;border-bottom-right-radius: 6px;border-bottom-left-radius: 6px'><tr><td style='padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="https://yurisnight.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=861dc70dfd5d4e0d754d43ea8&id=6f0af70506&e=32b1c40763" target="_blank" title="NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!"><b><span style='color:white;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;min-width: 100%;word-spacing:0px'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in;word-break:break-word'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt;max-width:100%;min-width: 100%'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>As a human race, our most intractable challenges—poverty, climate change, pandemic—happen on a global scale. Space exploration puts that scale into perspective and calls us to reimagine what divides and connects us as people. When we reached the moon and the world was able to see our pale blue dot from afar, we realized how important it was to protect it. While people with disabilities make up 26% of the US population, they are severely underrepresented in our STEM workforce—only 8.4% of employed scientists and engineers are people with disabilities. Through this flight,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>we hope to shift perspectives on what is possible</span></strong>. </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#757575'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Mission: AstroAccess serves an additional purpose—while traditional physical barriers are lifted in space, accidents resulting in some form of disability are inevitable during extended missions in space’s dangerous environment.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>We are dedicated to advancing disability inclusion in space exploration, not just for the benefit of marginalized communities, but for the benefit of all humankind</span></strong>. The tasks conducted during this program will help inform accessible design to make extended space travel safer for everyone.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#757575'><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Applications for crew members are open now through August 15! Any disabled adult living within the US can apply. </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#757575'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Mission: AstroAccess is a project of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://yurisnight.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=861dc70dfd5d4e0d754d43ea8&id=16a1f8b980&e=32b1c40763" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>the SciAccess Initiative</span></a>, and is conducted in partnership with Yuri’s Night, the Zero Gravity Corporation, Gallaudet University,</span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#757575'> </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind, Disabled American Veterans, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Stanford Medicine Abilities Coalition, Aspen Science Center, Disabled for Accessibility in Space, the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and Space for Humanity.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#757575'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:white'>_._,_._,_<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Links:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>You receive all messages sent to this group. <o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="https://acblists.org/g/Announce/message/1754" target="_blank">View/Reply Online (#1754)</a> | <a href="mailto:Announce@acblists.org?subject=Re:%20%3D%3FUTF-8%3FB%3FW0Fubm91bmNlXSBBc3Ryb0FjY2VzcyDigJQgQSBDYWxsIEZvciBEaXNhYmxlZCBFeHBsb3JlcnMgdG8gRXhwZXJpZW5jZSBaZXJvIEdyYXZpdHkh%3F%3D" target="_blank">Reply To Group</a> | <a href="mailto:kgasque@acb.org?subject=Private:%20Re:%20%3D%3FUTF-8%3FB%3FW0Fubm91bmNlXSBBc3Ryb0FjY2VzcyDigJQgQSBDYWxsIEZvciBEaXNhYmxlZCBFeHBsb3JlcnMgdG8gRXhwZXJpZW5jZSBaZXJvIEdyYXZpdHkh%3F%3D" target="_blank">Reply To Sender</a> | <a href="https://acblists.org/mt/84458670/12354" target="_blank">Mute This Topic</a> | <a href="https://acblists.org/g/Announce/post">New Topic</a><br><a href="https://acblists.org/g/Announce/editsub/12354">Your Subscription</a> | <a href="mailto:Announce+owner@acblists.org">Contact Group Owner</a> | <a href="https://acblists.org/g/Announce/leave/9813506/12354/490141492/xyzzy">Unsubscribe</a> [margo.downey@roadrunner.com]<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:white'>_._,_._,_<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>