Did you know that 11 deaf men helped NASA land on the moon?🌚⁣ ⁣ I was able to interview David Myers, a member of the Gallaudet 11. This was a group of 11 deaf men who were recruited to do a series of experiments over the course of a decade to help NASA better understand motion sickness during the Apollo era.⁣ ⁣ Remember, this was a time when NASA knew NOTHING about how a human would react in space. Would they get sick? If so, how sick? Would they be able to pilot a ship safely? Is there anything we can do to help them?⁣ ⁣ The Gallaudet 11 had all become deaf because of spinal meningitis, which had damaged an important part of their ear - the vestibular system. This is also the part of our body that is responsible for motion sickness (although they didn't quite know that at the time). ⁣ ⁣ So - these 11 deaf men were immune to motion sickness. This made them ideal candidates to act as a control group in experiments around motion sickness and compare their results to the same experiments...