This is an advance in non-limits ... a diabetic in space, Wooow ... so that they then put all the restrictions of the world with the driving license ... to see if the country progresses !!!!
A Spanish mountaineer gets NASA to pay a trip to space
Josu Feijoo, the Basque mountaineer who has crowned the top of Everest and five of the seven highest mountains of the five continents, has another project in his hands: traveling to space, a dream that had pending since childhood.In September 2009, it will become the world's first diabetic to make an orbital trip.The insistence and patience have been protagonists on their way to get their desire.
The mountaineer has shown that the will is one of the strongest feelings that the human being possesses.Since he was six years old, and according to Josu, 'The Kings always asked for a Athletic Bilbao suit and being an astronaut'.His second dream is about to come true.Based on insisting and sending e-mails for a year, requesting 'a hole', to the company Scaled Composites, which designs space vehicles, achieved the answer he yearned: 'What can I do for you?'
Without time to waste, he replied that 'being an astronaut'.His wish was granted.The only condition that the company put, was the expenses of the flight fuel, which ran on account of the mountaineer.However, several Sponsors of Josu will take care of the expenses.
All athlete's adventures have been accompanied by type I diabetes suffering from 24 years.Since then insulin is injected four times a day.But far from being an obstacle both in his personal and professional life, Josu learned to 'live with this disease' and to look for a double meaning to his sports challenges: 'achieve it as a person and that of challenged as chronic patient'.As he says, 'life puts you a zancadilla, and you have two parameters, or live with or live for', and chose to live with the disease.
Josu Feijoo defends that 'you have to pursue your dreams'.And he demonstrated it when once received, he presented himself to some tests from the space agency, which passed successfully.But the company, knowing its illness changed.The mountaineer, who describes himself as 'Cabezón', did not give up, and proposed that they made a comparison with other astronauts, with the condition that if he did better than them, he traveled to space.After facing NASA astronauts and the city of the Moscow stars, it was first.
'space cubaya'
On the orbital trip, Josu will undergo several experiments that are related to diabetes.One of them will consist of feeding on some seeds, which have designed some molecural biologists, and that will replace the need for diabetes patients to prick, with the intake of foods that house insulin.The objective of these tests is very clear: to change the quality of life of the diabetic.
next projects
Among his next projects are the coronar the two peaks left of the seven highest mountains in the world, becoming the Spanish room and the world's first diabetic to reach them.
In addition, it is pending to go to Aconcagua, a mountain of the Andes mountain range, and cross, alone, side by side, 1,600 km.of Greenland, carrying with him as the only support his sled.In this way he would be the first Spanish, first diabetic and the fifth person to reach the Grand Slam.