Comments on: Fram2 passengers take their first pictures of Earth’s polar regions https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:51:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1572566 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:51:10 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1572566 I think “Proxmire” is a great name for space toilets.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571796 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:20:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571796 Richard M-
Again, glad you brought this up. The only thing I ever really knew about it was that a large percentage of people experienced effects and pharmaceuticals were utilized.
I just never hear of this anymore.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571774 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:56:49 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571774 Stan,

Yeah, the nose cap is on a hinge, and is pulled back while they are in orbit. It has a camera on the far edge, and that’s where a lot of our Fram2 shots are coming from.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571770 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:54:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571770 Wayne,

Yeah. Chun talks about it in that tweet I linked. Sounds like all four of them got hit hard.

But they appear to be much better today.

The informal scale for space nausea in the NASA astronaut corps is a “Garn,” named after Senator Jake Garn, who spent pretty much all of his 1985 Shuttle mission as a floating vomit ball. “One Garn” means you maxed out. I wonder how the Fram2 crew feels they measured on the Garn scale?

But it looks like unlike Garn, they aren’t spending the whole mission in that state.

]]> By: Stan Witherspoon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571735 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:55:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571735 I’m confused. It looks like we are looking at the cupola from a camera on the nosecone with the south? Pole in the background,
. The view is similar to the ones for the spacewalk mission but with the cupola bubble replaced by a railing.
I really enjoy your site. Thanks stan

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571734 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:47:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571734 Richard–
So, they got sick?
I’m glad you brought that up, I never hear about this anymore. Need to go on a deep dive later. (This is apparently well researched!)

Can’t find the Video Clip I want, it exists but I can’t find it.
-One of the Apollo astronauts talking about taking “Scopolamine & Dexedrine” for motion sickness in space.

“Scopadex” = 25 mg of Scopolamine hydrobromide with 5 mg of Dexamphetamine.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571719 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:04:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571719 Not much information from the crew in orbit has at this point been released.

Apparently they all had some serious space adaptation syndrome on Day One. That was why they delayed opening the hatch to the cupola. Hey: It can happen to anyone (just ask Frank Borman!*).

https://x.com/satofishi/status/1907286344168276215
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* Yes, I know, Frank is no longer with us. (R.I.P.) But you can read about it in Bob’s book!

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571706 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:49:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571706 Yes, and I also think it’s the South Pole because the North Pole has been ice-free for decades now, according to no less an authority than the great Al Gore himself!

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fram2-passengers-take-their-first-pictures-of-earths-polar-regions/#comment-1571658 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:53:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113184#comment-1571658 Since we’re past the vernal equinox, albeit not by much, wouldn’t it be more likely to be the south pole?

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