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.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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“NASA Astronaut”
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.