Sorry, I’ve been at a conference in Orlando (AIAA SciTech), and pretty busy. Driving down to West Palm tomorrow to catch a flight home.
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Sorry, I’ve been at a conference in Orlando (AIAA SciTech), and pretty busy. Driving down to West Palm tomorrow to catch a flight home.
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Apropos of nothing ISS Crew 11 successfully splashed down in the Pacific off the coast of California early this morning. Best wishes to the ill crew member for a speedy recovery.
Here’s a follow-up snippet taken from a story today by the UPI here:
…NASA officials did not identify the affected crew member or the medical condition prompting the evacuation, but they said the individual is in stable condition.
The matter arose when a medical issue reported on Jan. 7 forced NASA to delay a planned spacewalk on Thursday that involved the affected astronaut.
Cardman and Fincke were scheduled to do the postponed spacewalk, which narrows the medical condition to one of those two.
NASA chief medical officer Dr. James Polk said the medical issue involves microgravity and is not caused by an injury or an operational issue.
The limited ability to diagnose the medical condition required the evacuation, and the affected astronaut is expected to recover.
While the medical evacuation is the first in the history of the ISS, Polk said statistical analysis suggested such issues should arise about every three years aboard the orbiting science lab…
A medical issue involving micro-gravity. That’s what is most interesting to me. First I’ve heard of an actual zero-g experience causing a medial emergency. Previously I’ve known of other zero-g related medical issues but none requiring a return to Earth.
If it happens to a would-be Mars colonist, either in-transit on or the surface well: SAFE Is Not An Option.
There’s some speculation that Cardman turned up preggers, which would make it a whodunnit since she’s been up there for more than 4 months. And the microgravity aspect would involve the fact there’s never been an on-orbit conception before. That we know of.
Other possibilities? No idea, but a lot of the astros are in late middle age to early old age. There have been guys near my age (75) and even older up there.
My guess was a vestibular system problem but a Star-Child would be more exciting.
That would be an advance on orbital lifestyle understanding if true. While I’ve never read of s3xual activity in space, it’s quite difficult for me to believe that decades of healthy adults in orbit have all been celibate. The alternative being that none have ever been able, which would be far more worrying.
There’s some published discussion of it from the early Shutte days but it’s hard to find due to replication of search terms. There was also some activity when a space triangle formed and one of the female partners got a bit too angry. It was in the news.
The other rumor is, the problem was with the Japanese guy, no idea what. I don’t know that we’ll ever find out even if Cardman winds up having a kid.
Oh and, Yusaku Maezawa says he never had an erection his whole two weeks aboard ISS and doesn’t know why/
If it was a human conception, that would be a major advance in knowledge. Instead this is most likely just one more sign that despite all the money and effort expended on the ISS, our ability to sustain extended human presence in micro gravity has barely advanced at all. It’s not like someone between here and Mars could solveh a health issue with a quick return to Earth.