Unidentified astronaut from recent ISS mission released from hospital
Though NASA’s press release provided little informationto protect the astronaut’s privacy, including his or her name, the unidentified astronaut who was held overnight for observation after returning from a seventh-month stay on ISS mission has now been released from the hospital.
After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday. The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning with other crew members.
This has happened before. Readapting to a 1G environment after months in weightlessness can be difficult, even if one does all the exercises required while in orbit.
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Though NASA’s press release provided little informationto protect the astronaut’s privacy, including his or her name, the unidentified astronaut who was held overnight for observation after returning from a seventh-month stay on ISS mission has now been released from the hospital.
After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday. The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning with other crew members.
This has happened before. Readapting to a 1G environment after months in weightlessness can be difficult, even if one does all the exercises required while in orbit.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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What is the big secret here? Can’t violate his privacy? The guy was in space for 7 months. What, we just pretend it never happened? Nothing to see here, eh? Why all the deceptive mumbo-jumbo?
What else to they intentionally lie about?
We need a ring station, pronto
Indeed Jeff, a lot of these Zero Gravity health issues would be mitigated if not eliminated by first building a practical test station that can be rotated, so see just how much gravity we really need, and then to go on and build rotating spacecraft. No more of this wasting decades dithering about, trying to find medications and workout routines that no one but NASA astronauts are going to take/do. People want to go to space and they want to do so safely, cheaply and in comfort.
Jeff Wright,
There is no prospect of getting a rotating space space station “pronto,” but Vast plans to build one sometime in the 2030s. That’s as soon as we can reasonably hope to have one – barring any sudden interest in such a project by SpaceX. Should that occur, we could have one sooner – perhaps even as a Vast-SpaceX joint project.
Gealon,
Ditto.
Ring / rotating wheel not necessary. First one should be a dumbell, with modules on either end. Those who looked into VG facilities a couple decades ago pointed out three gravity levels for the solar system (outside the gas giants) – 1 G (earth / venus), 1/3 G (mars, titan, triton, galilean moons, pluto?) and 1/6 G (moon and similarly sized bodies). Properly designed, you can do a facility to do two G levels at the same time. You can also spin / despin during operations to change G levels.
What we don’t know is the point where exposure to lower gravity starts physiological damage. May find that damage kicks in anywhere below 1 G. But we need to look. Cheers –
agimarc wrote: “Properly designed, you can do a facility to do two G levels at the same time. You can also spin / despin during operations to change G levels.”
Actually, if you have a 1G ring on the outside of the rotation, then a 0.4G to 1/3G ring, and finally a 1/6G ring nearest the hub, giving three G levels on the same station. A de-spun section could be attached to the hub, allowing for living quarters/ adaptation quarters in the spun-up section and research/ manufacturing/ tourism/ docking in the de-spun area. The spin rate depends upon the station (outer ring) size, or vice versa.
Returning from a long stay on the Moon? Spend increasing amounts of time in the 1/3G section and most of the time in the 1/6G section, then start migrating to the 1G section until you are ready for return to Earth. It could make it easier to re-adapt to Earth conditions from an extended stay in space.