One unidentified astronaut hospitalized afte return to Earth today
Though NASA has released very little information, including the indentity of the astronaut, one of th3e four crew who were brought back to Earth early today has ended up in the hospital.
NASA said Friday one its astronauts is in a hospital in Florida for medical observation after a “normal” predawn splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico inside a SpaceX capsule.
The mission’s other three crew members were cleared to return to their home base at Johnson Space Center in Houston after their own medical evaluations, NASA said.
The hospitalized astronaut “is in stable condition and under observation as a precautionary measure,” a NASA spokesperson said in a statement. The agency did not identify the astronaut or provide any more details about their condition, citing medical privacy protections.
That the other three astronauts returned to their home base at Johnson in Houston strongly suggests the hospitalized astronaut is the one Russian, Alexander Grebenkin, Normally Russians head back to Russia relatively quick after landing.
This remains speculation. We will have to wait for more information.
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Though NASA has released very little information, including the indentity of the astronaut, one of th3e four crew who were brought back to Earth early today has ended up in the hospital.
NASA said Friday one its astronauts is in a hospital in Florida for medical observation after a “normal” predawn splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico inside a SpaceX capsule.
The mission’s other three crew members were cleared to return to their home base at Johnson Space Center in Houston after their own medical evaluations, NASA said.
The hospitalized astronaut “is in stable condition and under observation as a precautionary measure,” a NASA spokesperson said in a statement. The agency did not identify the astronaut or provide any more details about their condition, citing medical privacy protections.
That the other three astronauts returned to their home base at Johnson in Houston strongly suggests the hospitalized astronaut is the one Russian, Alexander Grebenkin, Normally Russians head back to Russia relatively quick after landing.
This remains speculation. We will have to wait for more information.
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Assuming there’s an actual medical problem, it wouldn’t appear to be anything contagious or the whole crew would presumably have been quarantined. If it turns out to be the Russian who is in the hospital, perhaps it will also turn out that his “illnesss” is that he’s sick of Russia and wants to defect.
My money is on the crew member acquiring a bout of seasickness. Capsules shaped like that will rock and roll robustly in even mildly choppy water. My hope is it’s/was something simple like that.
You might have acknowledged my heads-up, but that’s okay. Hope it’s not too serious.
Always a risk for medical difficulties after a long term in microgravity, and this crew spent more than the usual term by a few weeks.
But as you say, it’s speculation. Astronaut privacy does make this sticky, and if it *is* the Russian, that would make it a whole lot stickier, for obvious reasons.