04. Providing that individuals owned their own spacecraft, similar to private jets today, would they be equipped with instruments making it possible for the blind to pilot them? (A K2S Question)

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The technology required to allow a blind person to pilot a vehicle in space is not unlike the technology that would be required to allow blind people to independently pilot an airplane or car on Earth. Sophisticated flight computers could be accessible through speech and Braille output. Navigational technology may be developed as people imagine and build ways for blind people to drive cars on Earth. Efforts through the National Federation of the Blind are currently underway to encourage the development of such technologies. By the time private space travel is a reality, we may have developed the computer sensor technology and no visual interface to allow blind pilots to sit in the captain's chair.

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Answer provided by Mark A. Riccobono, Robert O. Shelton, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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