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NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by bpodgursky »

andrewjf wrote: post #23
bpodgursky wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Respectfully, I think it's reasonable that the privilege of being an astronaut — there are a thousand times more applicants than astronauts — comes with the tradeoff losing some of the privacy afforded to private citizens. It costs NASA (and to be blunt about it, taxpayers) an extraordinary amount of money to put each astronaut in space. The fact is, there have been fewer than a thousand people in space in all of his…

NASAs entire budget is 0.47% of the national budget in 2020. Spare me. Space travel is worth it.

I don't think you really read what I wrote.

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by dotBen »

FireBeyond wrote: post #24
meowster wrote: post #8

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Gizmodo used to be owned by Gawker which went bankrupt due to a lawsuit brought on because they didn't care about a famous person's privacy. So this seems par for the course.

Gawker went bankrupt, because a public figure who felt that he was outed failed to win a lawsuit against them, so bankrolled someone else's lawsuit, with many questions unanswered. Public figure, because Courts have ruled that billionaires are public figures due to their "outsized influence on government and public policy". Outed by Gawker, despite his social media at the time regularly featuring photos of him shirtl…

JD Vance is a protege of Peter Thiel and Peter Thiel his heavily involved behind the scenes in the Donald Trump campaign and presumably administration...

Which is how you have Hulk Hogan involved in Trump rallies.

It all goes back to Gawker...

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by leoh »

dotBen wrote: post #30
jp_nc wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Sorry, but there's nothing about the NASA space program which has a "deal" to be transparent with the tax payer. From being involved with high altitude spy planes and stealth planes during the Cold war through to thinking about the many satellites that are put into space that relates to national security and even the clandestine space plane, we have no idea what it's for... There is simply no precedent to be upset ab…

Yes there is. It is called a social contract.

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by sim7c00 »

adastra22 wrote: post #18
jp_nc wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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They’re still figuring out what happened. When they know, we’ll know. NASA does not have authority to unilaterally release medical information of its astronauts, so there’s nothing to say until the problem is identified.

you're right. no use making statements that only raise more quesitons

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by sandworm101 »

tiahura wrote: post #28
perihelions wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- "NASA does not have authority to unilaterally release medical information of its astronauts" Just to clarify—and I'm not denying her right to choose to do that—the person quoted in the article as citing "medical privacy" is one of the astronauts who was hospitalized.

You’re honestly telling me, an astronaut who’s been on nasa tv talking about bodily functions in space with school kids for 6 months, suddenly clams up and doesn’t want anyone to know they got hurt when the SpaceX seatbelt failed?

Yes, especially when the possible injury may mean the end of thier career as a flying astronaut, which could be an issue here.

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by WalterBright »

perihelions wrote: post #12

Could it be an initially-unnoticed chemical leak in the Crew Dragon? That could explain how it hospitalized four astronauts at once, and also why they're uncharacteristically afraid of media coverage. They were evasive in a similar way when Starliner was first having issues—they're scared of the politics, or of the lawyers. edit to add: These spacecraft all use very toxic fuels, and this one has had issues with fuel…

If toxic fumes were the problem, they could just put on their helmets. Their helmets should be at hand just for such a problem.

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by inopinatus »

leoh wrote: post #34
dotBen wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but there's nothing about the NASA space program which has a "deal" to be transparent with the tax payer. From being involved with high altitude spy planes and stealth planes during the Cold war through to thinking about the many satellites that are put into space that relates to national security and even the clandestine space plane, we have no idea what it's for... There is simply no precedent to be upset ab…

Yes there is. It is called a social contract.

Maybe it’s simply none of your damn business.

Re: NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

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Post by sandworm101 »

aeternum wrote: post #26
latchkey wrote: post #4

Just a wild guess without anything backing it up and to get the guessing party started... something like decompression sickness? edit: love the answers, but would rather party.

My wild guess is seasickness. It's not supposed to happen to astronauts due to training and such, thus perhaps the unwillingness to say who. But tight quarters, seas were rough. You get the other astronauts checked out also just in case. I really don't have evidence for this though beyond wild speculation.

They all get space sick. Training helps with the temporary effects of g but no earthly training can prepare one's inner ear and digestive tract for 24/7 weightlessness. It happens to all of them but, conversely, they all get over it in time.
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