The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuation earlier this year says doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.

The astronaut who prompted NASA’s first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don’t know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
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      1 month ago

      I mean, the ISS probably has a very peculiar mix of microbes. Isolated from everything else they are just what the humans brought with them into this at first very sterile environment. And there in zero g they tried to survive end evolve.

      • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Well also dude is almost 60. Let some younger astronauts go. Whats with every old fuck just not going away anymore? Why not let the younglings take over?

          • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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            1 month ago

            My mind isn’t going to change about old people making way for younger people no matter how old i get. I’ve only got a decade and a half til i’m 60 so i’m pretty sure on this fact.

            • dmention7@midwest.social
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              1 month ago

              Same age as you, and the only thing holding me back from stepping out of the way for the younger generation is the fact that bills dont go away when you step aside. But I don’t plan on taking up professional space a single year longer than I need to.

              If you’re coming up on 60 and really passionate about your field, the best thing you can do is shift your focus to advocating for the next generation, making sure they have the skills and opportunities to follow you successfully.

                • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  I wouldn’t say 60 is the end, but being between 45 and 60 I wouldn’t say my perspectives between the two were basically the same, either.

  • jaykrown@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Zero gravity is completely unnatural, our biology is not accustomed to it at all. If we ever expect to have humans in space for long periods of time, we need a rotating wheel space station.

    • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      A rotating station would also be really cool to try out long term Lunar and Martian gravity closer to home. Out bodies kinda hate 0G, but what about 1/6 or 1/3 G?

      • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I think even a small amount of gravity will prevent all the fluid buildup issues because even if it’s low, having gravity means you can walk and apply pumping pressure on your fluids with your legs. The bone density issues will happen slowly unless you can get a cyclotron 1g occasionally.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Anxiety? I have “shutdowns” when over stressed where I can’t speak no matter how much I want to consciously. But that never happens out of the blue. It might happen if I was about to go on a spacewalk… For the first time. Not the 10th, tho.

    • higgsboson@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 month ago

      That is what it sounds like to me. Stress and just sensory overload and anxiety could cause my brain to just lock up some functions. Speech is pretty complex.

    • Ymer@feddit.dk
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      1 month ago

      Could also be a rogue aura from migraine or - worst case, I guess - it could be Transient Cerebral Ischaemia. Makes sense to evacuate him for evaluation father than risking a full blown stroke in space.